Gadgetbahns Galore!: Episode 10

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Timestamps

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:30 The News: Kyiv metro resumes full service
• 00:45 Theme song
• 01:18 So, what is a gadgetbahn?
• 02:19 "Gadget" + "bahn" (German for railway)
• 03:03 The hyperloop
• 03:21 Musk's Las Vegas loop (a.k.a. the car hole) ^{[1] [2] [11]}
  • 05:00 Tunnel boring cost reduction
  • 05:34 Safety, or the lack thereof ^[12]
  • 06:45 Speed, or the lack thereof
  • 07:09 Throughput, or the lack thereof
  • 07:51 Las Vegas-wide transit solution?
  • 09:56 Fleet of Teslas
  • 11:13 It's the biggest U.S. gadgetbahn
• 11:42 Monorails! ^{[6] [7]}
  • 12:32 All sorts of them, good and bad
  • 13:34 The Seattle monorail
  • 14:28 Almost became the Seattle metro
  • 14:47 Built cheap! (good job Seattle)
• 15:17 PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) ^{[3] [4] [14]}
  • 15:42 The trouble with PRT
  • 17:05 The Morgantown PRT
  • 18:56 Government funding phases
  • 19:59 Upgrades & extensions in the works
  • 20:33 West Virginia University is served by the PRT ^[13]
  • 22:13 Summer trip?
  • 22:43 Abysmal operating hours for an automated system ^[15]
• 23:41 The Wuppertal Schwebebahn ^[5]
• 25:31 The Miami Metromover ^[8]
• 26:47 The Transit Elevated Bus ^[9]
  • 27:51 Investment fraud arrest
  • 28:31 Would this even work?
  • 29:54 It almost happened
• 30:34 The automated...people...car...thing...shuttle
  • 31:28 Little autonomous car...pod...things
  • 31:46 "The Point" "TOD" project (Salt Lake County) ^[16]
  • 32:51 We look at pictures
  • 33:28 UTA's trial ^[10]
  • 35:25 It's a bad idea
• 36:01 Progress for its own sake
• 37:12 Stop please, build trains instead
• 38:19 Conclusions
• 40:46 Bye!

References & notes

1. [1] The Boring Company: Vegas Loop
2. [2] Adam Something: HE FIXED TRAFFIC
3. [3] Wikipedia: Personal rapid transit
4. [4] Wikipedia: Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit
5. [5] Wikipedia: Wuppertal Schwebebahn
6. [6] Wikipedia: Monorail
7. [7] Wikipedia: Seattle Center Monorail
8. [8] Wikipedia: Metromover
9. [9] Wikipedia: Transit Elevated Bus
10. [10] UDOT: Automated Shuttle Pilot Project
11. [11] The Boring Company: Loop
12. [12] The Boring company claims^[11] that there are mechanisms for ventilation, fire protection, and evacuation, but it has not been shown that these meet any regulatory standards.
13. [13] See a ride on the PRT
14. [14] Tom Scott: Pod Cars of the Past and Future: The Morgantown PRT
15. [15] Summer is open with limited hours; still closed Sundays and university breaks
16. [16] The Point Framework Plan Final Report