What odds do you give THIS gas-saving idea? [odds of becoming a reality, I mean]?
http://blog.cleveland.com/pdgraphics/2008/07/23FGMONO.pdf
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I’d give it slim to none, too, but only because there’s no clear way of exiting exactly where you want. I doubt accidents would be a prob, since redundant electronic controls are proving more logical than ppl. As for steel…well, there’s a LOT of steel in modern freeways.
John – I agree. A track underneath would make more sense. There’s an automated warehousing system somewhere that uses a High-Speed In-Flight Transfer system.
Products move onto and off of the flat-bed cars of this behemoth at pretty high speeds. Unlike Denver Airport’s toss-a-bag, it reportedly worked pretty well.
If these guys (mono-rail) have a way to quickly and safely switch from one freeway to another, then they may be onto something. Otherwise, hmm…
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Comments on What odds do you give THIS gas-saving idea? [odds of becoming a reality, I mean]?
i doubt that would work…. too many accidents…..
I would say like 0%. It would cost way too much…Steel along would make it not effective…Not!!!
How could you pass and it would give a new meaning to deadlock if that so we need just to have trains everywhere and forget cars IT WONT WORK AT ALL
Zero………..
-100%
damn.. that guy took my idea… no joke…. except i had the cars on a rail underneath the cars, like a train track