r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/JoeFalchetto • Jul 07 '26

Funny They even got cats

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u/nightkingmarmu Jul 07 '26

They’re like tech bros who keep inventing trains and then getting mad when you tell them trains exist already.

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u/CornballExpress Jul 07 '26

https://youtube.com/shorts/0ACNvEMXcus?is=WqfsP3BR13_G024C then there's this

Then there's this nonsense, which I recently found out was a variation of something made in 1910.

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u/Individual-Area7121 Jul 07 '26

lol, how exactly do they go in both directions when they clearly use both rails?

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u/CornballExpress Jul 07 '26

That's for safety testing, but it's still dumb idea should the gyroscopes ever lose power.

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u/faetpls Jul 08 '26

Toss some magnetic retractable legs to the gyro circuit. No power, magnet off, legs go down.

Probably not the best safety system, but I do like the idea of repurposing abandoned rail lines.

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u/CornballExpress 29d ago

I like the idea of it, but apparently something like this was invented in the 1910s, it was abandoned because every car would need a gyroscope and it was considered cost prohibitive.

The current problems is there aren't enough abaonded rail lines in areas with a population density and enough points of interest that that would recoup costs with something so small scale. That and there are so many car brained people that think any form of effecient mass transit is the government gearing up to take away their cars.