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(DIR) Post #AmwortNDAY0MhPcPXU by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T01:06:48Z
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Wow it transports 20 people. ooooh I have an idea, what if we connected a bunch of these together... in a long chain and put them on tracks to make them more energy efficient (and to meet power needs) then ran them along the most popular transportation corridors in major cities! They could even go in tunnels in places like NYC to reduce traffic!Golly Elon is on to something this time!
(DIR) Post #Amwp0haCNKoijntUaO by amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu
2024-10-13T01:08:22Z
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@futurebird our company's goal is to "reinvent trains" and I think you'll see, we're slowly but surely on track to achieve it.
(DIR) Post #Amwp4KTaEADUERWt0q by smellsofbikes@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T01:09:01Z
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@futurebird He's building something expensive and flashy to suck up lots of money that would otherwise go to actually effective, real-world public transit. It's infuriating.
(DIR) Post #AmwpYbdOzuLq8RYjPU by CliftonR@wandering.shop
2024-10-13T01:13:38Z
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@amsomniac @futurebird I think his real mission is to make trains look awesome by comparison with cars and driving.
(DIR) Post #AmwpYcaFT7QH4x5j8K by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T01:14:28Z
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@CliftonR @amsomniac He's making the damn 7 train seem like space age tech.
(DIR) Post #Amwq4emIqT6z9S0OeG by jrconlin@soc.jrconlin.com
2024-10-13T01:20:15Z
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@futurebird I dunno. 20 people doesn't seem like a lot.I wonder if there's an electric vehicle that might hold a few more than that?
(DIR) Post #Amwq8UZmiYVufXylBA by bryanredeagle@beige.party
2024-10-13T01:21:00Z
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@futurebird What is this fixing? Doesn't a city bus fit like 3 times that many people?
(DIR) Post #Amwq9iOkoSqdpLP1XM by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T01:21:14Z
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@amsomniac Dude really said "but what if we need to move a lot of people" and gave us 1/3 of "The People Mover" from Detroit but somehow worse
(DIR) Post #AmwqLcvuxRsmLuavgm by paulc@mstdn.social
2024-10-13T01:23:22Z
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@futurebird The tech bros are constantly inventing things that we already have.
(DIR) Post #AmwqOUVqimnL6blclk by justafrog@mstdn.social
2024-10-13T01:23:53Z
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@futurebird It's a crime against humanity that we don't have anywhere near enough rail capacity.Why is such a ludicrously high percentage of passenger transport by car?What benefit do people get out of daily grinds in traffic jams?We gotta have more trains, dammit!
(DIR) Post #AmwqerEE24nCBsKNiS by timo21@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-10-13T01:26:40Z
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@futurebird It looks like something godzilla would step on, break in half, and throw in the ocean.
(DIR) Post #AmwqmQyXWZVl5KbUWG by Dervishpi@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T01:28:12Z
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@futurebird It looks like something right out of "Metropolis" - and about as dystopian!But I admit, the design is more appealing than his post-apocalyptic truck!
(DIR) Post #AmwqqTYfraxeFnQsYC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T01:28:57Z
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@Dervishpi It looks like an airport train. And that's fine there is nothing wrong with airport trains.
(DIR) Post #AmwqzHm1343aJHsF9M by amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu
2024-10-13T01:30:32Z
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@futurebird but it fits all of his friends!
(DIR) Post #Amwr1ro03MiGdm25SK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T01:31:01Z
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@smellsofbikes I really hope fewer people are falling for his BS this time around. We already have self driving taxis in prototype that are more practical. (and yet still not practical. )And ... public transit is awesome and could benefit from modernization and love. Fix the elevators and the NYC subway would be space age.
(DIR) Post #Amwr6UrolVIUwj1gki by Dervishpi@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T01:31:43Z
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@futurebird I'm betting it doesn't have nearly as much luggage space as an airport train. Although as you said, hooking a few of them together and putting them on a track for safety and efficiency would help.
(DIR) Post #AmwrFe83hOBqHHzAHo by CStamp@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T01:33:28Z
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@futurebird Kind of reminds me of his tunnels, that just moved traffic underground, with no egress if an emergency, not fixing anything, but potentially creating more severe problems.Next, he's going to explain this really exciting invention that sounds suspiciously like a wheel. ;)
(DIR) Post #AmwrRNp69JaXBIiInw by HoustonDog@mastodon.world
2024-10-13T01:35:30Z
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@futurebird heh, the word "corridor" was a question (answer?) yesterday on Jeopardy! show...
(DIR) Post #AmwrTfZl7Hgyoqd3bs by Simplicator@federate.social
2024-10-13T01:35:45Z
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@futurebird He would never ride in one. Hence it is an insult to the public, a door slap in the face
(DIR) Post #AmwrxTVOYgFc4SnfNI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T01:41:25Z
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@JessTheUnstill @paulc God I love my morning bus ride into town. It's so peaceful and I know everyone including the driver and we always sit in the same places.I listen to an audio book or work on math problems and look at the city moving by. Then I walk a few blocks to work in the lovely NYC dawn. Granted I go early enough to avoid rush hour. Which is the secret to having a peaceful soul if you don't want to deal with the stairs in the subway.
(DIR) Post #Amws1dEILVs5O8meXY by MishaVanMollusq@sfba.social
2024-10-13T01:42:01Z
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@futurebird @smellsofbikes
(DIR) Post #AmwsGcWrEViPYjc5x2 by bynkii@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T01:44:52Z
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@futurebird @JessTheUnstill @paulc when I rode the bus to work for a few years, I became part of a group that had a mailing list and Xmas dinners.Another group I was part of in MA, one woman made her boyfriend ride with us, because if we didn’t like him, she wasn’t marrying him.
(DIR) Post #AmwsTxtp5cTTbRic40 by jhaue@aus.social
2024-10-13T01:47:15Z
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@futurebird But can it toast crumpets?
(DIR) Post #AmwugiqoYD8obUWR3Q by binaryequation@freeradical.zone
2024-10-13T02:11:59Z
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@futurebird It's too bad that Don Cornelius wasn't alive to introduce the LOL Train.
(DIR) Post #Amwuq8hnnEw1OenU5Q by Barnesm31@aus.social
2024-10-13T02:10:34Z
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@JessTheUnstill @paulc @futurebird engineers always end up reinventing trains. Biologists crabs.
(DIR) Post #Amwus9VNn6H0SKwpaC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T02:14:05Z
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Trains are the crabs of transportation "innovation."@Barnesm31 @JessTheUnstill @paulc
(DIR) Post #Amwv0b9Wsk90WIkmGm by Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-10-13T02:15:38Z
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@futurebird @Barnesm31 @JessTheUnstill @paulc And yet I love train travel.
(DIR) Post #AmwvIioT8j9vUTXpUe by GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai
2024-10-13T02:18:51Z
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@futurebird Yes, he built a lunchbox bus. It has no street clearance. And the wheelwells are you hidden in a smooth exterior which means it’s not very nimble
(DIR) Post #AmwwCkhVJBmHYt0Jwu by laescude@mastodon.cr
2024-10-13T02:28:55Z
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@futurebird Looks ergonomic to me
(DIR) Post #AmwwVNQ45l6orGjCca by bgrinter@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-10-13T02:32:13Z
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@futurebird @BlackAzizAnansi Leon is visionary https://m.youtube.com/shorts/66v_9QlAM2w
(DIR) Post #AmwxDBRjy6FUSyOtJA by drakenblackknight@mastodon.online
2024-10-13T02:40:15Z
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@futurebird @smellsofbikes Get the signal equipment modernized, too. And put new cars on all the lines. The 6 looks horrible compared to the 2 and the A.
(DIR) Post #AmwyZXRYxpgJ0wXb8a by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T02:55:32Z
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@johntimaeus Um.... wouldn't that get kinda hot?Like even with meter-wide coil... car chargers need 240 volt transformers... IDK... I just feel like induction charging ... at about 8"+ away that's not going to be very efficient and ... it might be kinda... hot. It's hard to get a phone to charge at more than 5".... how in the heck.
(DIR) Post #AmwygJUxD7wzn5MEjY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T02:56:44Z
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@johntimaeus And really induction charging is always wasteful! The only reason we do it for phones is they just aren't all that big.Have you seen an induction laptop? Ever? There is a reason for that!
(DIR) Post #AmwyvXYTELfhjMGNH6 by EricFielding@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T02:59:29Z
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@futurebird Elon already has his Boring Company that specializes in boring tunnels.
(DIR) Post #Amwz1jVDirEoWThCWO by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T03:00:37Z
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@johntimaeus If they do induction charging there will need to be a thing that lowers the coils onto the charging pad to get it close enough to not waste tons and tons of power. And if you are going to do all that why not just plug the damn thing in and have almost no loss?
(DIR) Post #AmwzRyXyPVAuiAUsCG by andrewfeeney@phpc.social
2024-10-13T03:05:19Z
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@futurebird @johntimaeus I’m curious what kind of strength magnetic field would be generated for charging at that scale too. Would that be unsafe for people with ferrous implants or devices?Maybe it’s fine, I genuinely don’t know.
(DIR) Post #Amwzpz6pyHCrPCFj7o by dinozombie@metalhead.club
2024-10-13T03:09:40Z
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@futurebird @johntimaeus Elon being Elon will just go "check out our new tech: wireless chargers but wired' and people will just hand him money
(DIR) Post #AmwzucQxhmpoWisLq4 by ijk@mathstodon.xyz
2024-10-13T03:10:31Z
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@futurebird Wish I could be given billions of dollars to daydream about gadgetbahns.
(DIR) Post #Amx02Z0mJTp2EHPtyK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T03:11:59Z
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@johntimaeus They have very little clearance for a car... but they have to have at least 8" ...
(DIR) Post #Amx0irftJYegH4ol4y by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T03:19:37Z
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@cinebox @nblr @johntimaeus Wow. So "wireless"Is this just a safety and weatherproofing feature? I don't understand the benefit. Why not just have hard copper on copper action?
(DIR) Post #Amx0wwEn98hQTpqwXg by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T03:22:10Z
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@cinebox @nblr @johntimaeus It need a little light on it to let you know you put it in far enough. IMO. I could see it being poorly placed and getting inefficient charging, or none at all.
(DIR) Post #Amx18WZsNKBiN9Ev5c by Limnobotanik@norden.social
2024-10-13T03:24:16Z
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@Ricardus @futurebird @Barnesm31 @JessTheUnstill @paulc as I love crabs ;)
(DIR) Post #Amx1NSLMOqn1aHZP1c by rdviii@famichiki.jp
2024-10-13T03:26:55Z
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@futurebird @cinebox @nblr @johntimaeus those things were used in the first (modern) generation of EVs, such as the GM one back around 2001. I think they were expected to be more durable and less prone to shock than straight copper, but I would GUESS that they were efficient but couldn't carry enough power for today's higher battery capacities and quick charging demands.
(DIR) Post #Amx1S64ecmYDxry7yC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T03:27:48Z
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@rdviii @cinebox @nblr @johntimaeus Even with such close contact for the coils. How is that going to happen "wirelessly" ???
(DIR) Post #Amx1uMfQWcyPXGeEWe by PattyHanson@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T03:32:53Z
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@futurebird It can't drive up a driveway without bottoming out and what happens if it hits a pothole?
(DIR) Post #Amx2ABoYdwAcVfSsSG by Susan60@aus.social
2024-10-13T03:35:44Z
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@futurebird Genius!
(DIR) Post #Amx2O95TZyfg6d26Pw by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2024-10-13T03:38:17Z
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@futurebird @cinebox @nblr @johntimaeus Seals on inductive surfaces can protect them from corrosion and allow the charger to work while wet.If that is worth decreased efficiency is a good question.
(DIR) Post #Amx2ZWIHdcoZGVRml6 by drahardja@sfba.social
2024-10-13T03:40:19Z
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@futurebird @johntimaeus Yep. Every wireless inductive-charging EV proposal has failed for this very reason. There’s a reason why EV fast charging stations have water-cooled pipes and giant whirring fans: current creates heat, and charging an EV generates a LOT of heat.Wireless charging efficiency is much lower than wired even at optimal distances, and its efficiency drops off very quickly as the distance between coils increase. That means a lot MORE power is spent on heating the cables, and not transferring energy to the car.Wireless car charging is not going to ever be a reality, unless we’re talking about trickle-charging cars at home with coils that are very closely spaced to each other in which the power lost to inefficiency is acceptable.
(DIR) Post #Amx2mnXIqKqCVPntvk by danedeasy@mastodon.world
2024-10-13T03:42:43Z
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@futurebird he is so fucking stupid actually.
(DIR) Post #Amx2qYKxIMPOWaopX6 by michael_w_busch@mastodon.online
2024-10-13T03:43:25Z
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@futurebird @johntimaeus Additional problems with induction charging:Stray induced currents can brick pacemakers and ICDs; along with other sensitive electronics.But Elon Musk has never been concerned with making accessible products.
(DIR) Post #Amx3DbQhxj64mFV6OX by cavyherd@wandering.shop
2024-10-13T03:47:32Z
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@futurebird @JessTheUnstill @paulc I still haven't been able to bring myself to use the bus since the start of the pandenic 😢 I suppose I could let that go, since masking seems to be effective in avoiding The Plague(s)....
(DIR) Post #Amx3OnTBXRRPItzsbg by mickymorse@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T03:49:36Z
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@futurebird America had a great mass transit system until GM started buying the trains and put them out of business, So they could sell GM buses.
(DIR) Post #Amx3XGZ1Fd3Nr1lS5Y by Basic_Bench@mstdn.social
2024-10-13T03:51:08Z
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@futurebird wow is this like some kind of bus?
(DIR) Post #Amx3u08sTLwLaGNU6C by rdviii@famichiki.jp
2024-10-13T03:55:13Z
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@futurebird @cinebox @nblr @johntimaeus those paddles were just big inductors, and the on the car side were sandwiched between two more big inductors.People have been talking about "roads that charge the cars as they drive" for some years. I think those are also inductive, but I don't know for sure. Efficiency seems likely to be low.But there is also talk of charging things via beam formed microwave that could work over a longer distance.
(DIR) Post #Amx4LjNsN8KxiZcEdM by Kencf618033@disabled.social
2024-10-13T04:00:15Z
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@futurebird The Flying Toaster screensaver was prescient.@shansterable
(DIR) Post #Amx7wrwFpTl0pI61rM by jeffc@mastodon.online
2024-10-13T04:40:34Z
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@futurebirdHe certainly has a distinctive design aesthetic.I agree, I don't understand why you'd want to plug in an inductive charging paddle. Sure, no sparks or contacts to wear, but Teslas already have an off-the-shelf solution that does that, and the paddle approach still requires someone (or something) to plug it in. If you're going inductive, why not put the pickup on the underside and raise the transmitter up to it automatically when it parks in a charging stall?
(DIR) Post #Amx8bVXa0dMNEVvuGO by davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T04:47:54Z
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@futurebird If only he was properly trained.
(DIR) Post #Amx9KFQ2nNauGRk3e4 by sabik@rants.au
2024-10-13T04:55:59Z
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@futurebird Wait, tech bro reinvents the bus?
(DIR) Post #AmxC235CDqnCec0JaS by greensofshade@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T05:26:20Z
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@futurebird make it a little longer and call it bus
(DIR) Post #AmxEUFgLAlD7kJxDWq by OddDev@floss.social
2024-10-13T05:53:50Z
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@futurebird Tech bros will never stop to reinvent trains.
(DIR) Post #AmxEzLiolYmBSJwQ40 by yaygya@c.im
2024-10-13T05:59:28Z
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@futurebird @amsomniac the annoying thing about the Detroit People Mover is that the exact same technology has been used to build a much more comprehensive and reliable network in Vancouver.
(DIR) Post #AmxFV6spTFjIhYliXA by willaful@romancelandia.club
2024-10-13T06:05:09Z
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@futurebird Given what the dude thinks is a truck... 🤷🏻♀️
(DIR) Post #AmxFb0nV0kw9Z15d2W by trochee@dair-community.social
2024-10-13T06:06:14Z
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@futurebird Literally from 2018, and this wasn't even his first attemptAlso, my biggest hit ever on that site
(DIR) Post #AmxFmW5uzQK3ocBuEq by trochee@dair-community.social
2024-10-13T06:08:20Z
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@futurebird @Barnesm31 @JessTheUnstill @paulc I feel like @annaleen will have something useful to add here, after reading THE TERRAFORMERS
(DIR) Post #AmxH5SM3DappfmKe3c by ajsadauskas@social.vivaldi.net
2024-10-13T06:22:48Z
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@futurebird @CliftonR @amsomniac Ladies and gentlemen, here's the automated self-driving electric pod system of the future! 🤯These electric hyperpods arrive every 4 minutes on weekdays and every 10 minutes on weekends.After passing through the futuristic platform screen doors, it whisks you to your destination through a tunnel at speeds of over 100km/h, including under Sydney Harbour.I call it... The Sydney Metro!
(DIR) Post #AmxHsmWl0OPQQWrNIm by msh@coales.co
2024-10-13T06:31:50Z
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@futurebird I recon that by 2026 Elon could finally achieve parity with Vancouver's mass transit technology from 1986 but his is "more cyber" or something I guess I dunno
(DIR) Post #AmxJTQiFAtcLRFGuJs by Gerego@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T06:49:42Z
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@futurebird @zilahu and how do you plan to get to the railway station, if it’s miles away? Sure maybe with bicycle, but what about if you are a group of 10 people with luggages? Then you’ll need solutions like this that come to pick you up and take you there.
(DIR) Post #AmxJlDciZva43WAZLE by engravecavedave@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T06:52:44Z
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@futurebird Adam Something approves
(DIR) Post #AmxLLLaGYicr7joWBs by Best_parolanto@mastodon.top
2024-10-13T07:10:39Z
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@futurebird it's glowy, so it's innovative.
(DIR) Post #AmxLNDsiASIzoXKt2u by StarkRG@myside-yourside.net
2024-10-13T07:10:59Z
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@futurebird Maybe rig up some way to safely stow personal self-propelled two-wheeled vehicles with an inline wheel configuration to make it easier to get to/from the stop/station.
(DIR) Post #AmxNw4mCDCCHcR2Fm4 by nap@social.coop
2024-10-13T07:38:51Z
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@futurebird I dont think this could work unless you ran them on some kind of schedule or with some kind of periodicity so that people can reliably catch one of these "car chains" (too bad there isnt a single word for this)
(DIR) Post #AmxOQPZ7U0OWmaNs2a by kaida@mastodon.world
2024-10-13T07:45:11Z
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@futurebird If only...
(DIR) Post #AmxORzNTorJW8rgxVI by pointlessone@status.pointless.one
2024-10-13T07:45:20Z
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@futurebird Robotaxi in a Hyperloop, you say? This is revolutionary!
(DIR) Post #AmxRutnjvnCt6iS4Gm by Nicovel0@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T08:24:19Z
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@futurebird @amsomniac I live in London, UK. Roughly every 15 minutes an electric bus that can carry up to 60-ish people (not a double decker) drives past my house. It’s made by a Chinese company. It would blow Musk’s mind away.
(DIR) Post #AmxSn5vN4dlSLNrbeK by williamthorpe@mastodon.nz
2024-10-13T08:34:02Z
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@futurebird @johntimaeus I guess if you can do a quick charge at every bus stop while passengers are getting on then it might be worthwhile. Usual idea is to have loop embedded in ground along parking spot.
(DIR) Post #AmxT4YygJ6ubNGk2fQ by prefec2@norden.social
2024-10-13T08:37:16Z
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@futurebird oh they invented the mini bus, but with only one door. Here they have two and space for luggage or a trolley.
(DIR) Post #AmxYR3MAXWB5jaGsDY by qwazix@bananachips.club
2024-10-13T09:36:03Z
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@Nicovel0 @futurebird @amsomniac I live in athens. Batteryless electric buses have been driving around the city the last ~60 years. Now there are a few hundred chinese battery powered busses as well.
(DIR) Post #Amxa5CtoZz36rrifOy by cstross@wandering.shop
2024-10-13T09:55:47Z
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@futurebird @Barnesm31 @JessTheUnstill @paulc @Orc Carcinization isn't the only example of convergent evolution: there are also mustelidization, trees (trees as a clade do not exist!), sabercats (they keep evolving then going extinct) …What's the airliner equivalent—the Boeing 737/Airbus 320 convergence?
(DIR) Post #AmxaFQwZDXxjJzsoiG by truh@shark.community
2024-10-13T09:57:40Z
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@futurebird @Barnesm31 @JessTheUnstill @paulc sometimes it's buses
(DIR) Post #AmxaWOEIYrdDpLGJlY by beecycling@romancelandia.club
2024-10-13T10:00:41Z
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@futurebird Is Elon trying to make pods happen again?
(DIR) Post #AmxaYYuRpCy3Ws0s4G by darkling@mstdn.social
2024-10-13T10:01:08Z
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@futurebird @Barnesm31 @JessTheUnstill @paulc Ferrequinisation?
(DIR) Post #Amxdcq3uIH6ZkQAV96 by WhyNotZoidberg@topspicy.social
2024-10-13T10:35:31Z
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@futurebird Every tech bro tries to reinvent trains, and literally all other ideas than trains is worse.Also hasn't he done this four times already since 2005?
(DIR) Post #AmxdlxhTGTSw2k1Zku by Oggie@woof.group
2024-10-13T10:37:09Z
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@futurebird Next he's going to tell us that we can use boiling water to turn something.seriously man, just...make trains. Please.Or frankly, Musk could just stop -actively stopping trains- from being created.
(DIR) Post #Amxeoys9Sk9uVB1WXw by feonixrift@x0r.be
2024-10-13T10:48:53Z
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@futurebird @Barnesm31 @JessTheUnstill @paulc Or maybe, trains are trees and bicycles are crabs?
(DIR) Post #AmxeqB0XpSqGQdWGu0 by Captain_Jack_Sparrow@mastodon.world
2024-10-13T10:49:02Z
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@futurebird So it's a bus, right?
(DIR) Post #Amxf8aXddMHApgmJOa by trezzer@social.linux.pizza
2024-10-13T10:52:27Z
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@futurebird Shoot, put a human driver in there and triple the capacity and you have… a better solution: The buses we already have.
(DIR) Post #AmxfGvtq6oE9OG8qHI by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T10:53:59Z
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@trezzer I think the current fashionable trend is to have the human driver operating the machines remotely so you can avoid thinking about them and pay them less. And of course it makes it so much more responsive and safe.
(DIR) Post #AmxfKt00pnjvYLujPk by Captain_Jack_Sparrow@mastodon.world
2024-10-13T10:54:37Z
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@futurebird Hong Kong Trams, established in 1904
(DIR) Post #AmxfkjpTYCmmdsJS2i by trezzer@social.linux.pizza
2024-10-13T10:59:19Z
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@futurebird Ah yes. Like a certain Chinese electric vehicle brand that recently had cars stuck on a ferry because they couldn’t unlock the doors as the key server couldn’t be reached. Brakes are the obvious next thing to control remotely. Connectivity and lag are, after all, entirely solved problems.
(DIR) Post #AmxkPUlEsY2vb91MUy by Andrew@mnstdn.monster
2024-10-13T11:51:31Z
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@futurebird @futurebird @smellsofbikes right? I'm currently in Spain with little kids and enjoying the ability to just roll a stroller onto an elevator, into the subway and pop up across the city in minutes. Feels pretty space age vs folding the stroller and packing into a Tesla Uber just to sit in traffic.
(DIR) Post #Amxldstq1oyOTHT6QK by CenturyAvocado@fosstodon.org
2024-10-13T12:05:20Z
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@futurebird this looks like he has invented a minibus without a driver. What's the application?
(DIR) Post #Amxo1tWlXsKXHEFl32 by rowmyboat@glammr.us
2024-10-13T12:32:05Z
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@futurebird @CliftonR @amsomniac ….especially after they extended the 7 to the west side
(DIR) Post #AmxoBEQlCIYeiGtdZY by rowmyboat@glammr.us
2024-10-13T12:33:47Z
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@futurebird Vermont said “hold my beer” https://www.moover.com
(DIR) Post #AmxpONSz0tdGSKlhMu by robotistry@sciencemastodon.com
2024-10-13T12:47:21Z
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@futurebird @trezzer Yeah, the NHTSA data isn't great.https://www.craftlawfirm.com/autonomous-vehicle-accidents-2019-2024-crash-data/I know some of these are using a remote overseer system, where the person capable of manual control is remote rather than in the car, but the operator is limited in the actions they are allowed to take and cannot prevent horrific outcomes they see unfolding.Found this, am now even more disturbed: https://phantom.auto
(DIR) Post #AmxrfNb3ywRHgvmaem by denki@mastodontech.de
2024-10-13T13:12:50Z
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@futurebirdThis reminds me of the Cylons from Battlestar Galactica. Elon probably watched the shows and concluded the Cylons were the good guys.
(DIR) Post #AmxzeV0Hl1Ec0UfgHY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2024-10-13T14:42:18Z
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How are you going to transmit 240V like that though? Multiple coils? The distance will be at least like 5" or more from the bottom of the car, through the parking surface to the other coil. So you'd probably need the coil array on the base of the car to lower itself and make contact with the ground or it'd be inefficient. But if you're doing all that why not just plug it in at that point?I suppose a car that could plug itself in would be possible, and might use induction. @bplein
(DIR) Post #Amy6N4tEII8Vly0k6q by Ricardus@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-10-13T15:57:27Z
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@Limnobotanik @futurebird @Barnesm31 @JessTheUnstill @paulc Crabs are kinda cool, but Lobsters make better pets.
(DIR) Post #AmyDzE7Z7W6l5Or248 by hoodscientist@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T17:22:56Z
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@futurebird I'm always reminded of this quote from former mayor of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa, when tech bros try to “fix” transit: “An advanced city is not one where the poor can get around by car, but one where even the rich use public transportation.”
(DIR) Post #AmyFzCL7wVqJTCJOHw by twipped@twipped.social
2024-10-13T17:45:21Z
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@futurebird with how short the ground clearance is on these things, it basically can only run on rails anyway
(DIR) Post #AmycRhrWXBVGKqSpaS by realSiegfried@troet.cafe
2024-10-13T21:57:00Z
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@futurebird Looks like Musk visited a steam train museum.
(DIR) Post #Amz8R8LBnd2khU6ucS by Luna@mastodon.world
2024-10-14T03:55:27Z
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@futurebird They invented he PRT again yet some how it's even worse than the other attempts.
(DIR) Post #Amza4xRASIsLEH7Ybg by OskarImKeller@fnordon.de
2024-10-14T09:05:11Z
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@futurebird 👀 @jon
(DIR) Post #An1PAVelwgOjcwqhWK by lufthans@mastodon.social
2024-10-15T06:12:22Z
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@futurebird @trezzer and a remote driver can drive multiple vehicles at the same time* efficiency *