urbanism

Some of this technology may sound a bit "over-ambitious," but keep in mind the project was inspired by a fully functional self-balancing monorail that mechanical engineer Louis Brennan designed and demonstrated back in the early 1900s.

Where did that bring you? Back to me.

Counterproposal: There's communally owned Railbikes and if you come across somebody else you just switch bikes real quick

because not everyone wants to wait for public transit or make a long drive, an increasing number of people are choosing to live in cities instead of the countryside.

Just to note here, I don't think that rings true. Germany is a very urbanized society by statistics, I mean it's just dense, the furthest point you can get from civilization is like a half hour walk or something, but it is also incredibly sprawled out for european standards because the government subsidizes the single family home in the suburbs quite heavily. "Countryside" in germany is being like 5km from the nearest city centers and there's only a few appartment blocks.

There is an incredible amount of unused, but useable, railways just laying about the countryside that this could work for, I have one near me and it would be a very, very good public transport option, but honestly, they should just reactivate the fucking train tracks there and run trains.

ok fine I like it, it's neat, this is the only good "not-trains public transit concept art" thing I've seen that isn't full bazinga-brain. Turning a single rail-line into a two-way street is cool.

why self balancing?? lmao just make a tiny autonomous rail car that uses both rails. This is dumb. Though I will say sparsely used/rural lines are probably the least bad place to try on-demand type systems, since even if they succeed wildly they can't be a victim of their own success since there's only a small manageable population to pull riders from.

I hear those things are awfully loud.

goes hard