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Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand (newatlas.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Interesting idea. Would only realistically work on abandoned lines rather than rarely used lines, with special permission from the railroad infrastructure owner and the national governing body for railways (Federal Railroad Administration in the case of US, Eisenbahn-Bundesamt in Germany), since normal railway signalling systems for single track wouldn't work with the bidirectional monorail system.

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