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If you ever complained on how much time trains or even buses waste when they stop at every station, this might impress you. The smart train will not need to stop or slow down to pick you up.
Someone please tell me how this solves any problems. - And for that matter, how it won't create new ones.
Except that instead of complaining about having to wait for trains, people will complain about waiting for the loading car to show up. Then when it does, they'll complain about waiting for the train....still.
Someone please tell me how this solves any problems. - And for that matter, how it won't create new ones.
Thats easy, the energy it takes to stop and accelerate a train at each stop takes tremendous amounts of energy... therefore by using a simple deceleration rail on the top of each train the boarding cart merely uses the inertia of the already moving train to launch and dock boarding cart. Saves the train having to stop...therefore increasing the number of stops/stations you can have in a rail line without increasing the number of trains you would have to run. This would save HUGE amounts of energy, and therefore HUGE amounts of money, and is INCREDIBLY efficient.
Smart people do not usually complain about waiting for trains, they are usually on time. It's the people on the train already that have to constantly stop to pick other people up, making the journey ever longer depending on the amount of stops.
Your welcome for doing the thinking for you.
Your polite attitude really shines through.
That's easy. The energy it takes to stop and accelerate a train at each stop takes is tremendous! Therefore, by using a simple deceleration rail on the top of each train, the boarding cart merely uses the inertia of the already moving train to launch and dock boarding cart. This saves the train having to stop and increases the number of stops/stations you can have in a rail line without increasing the number of trains you would have to run. It would also save HUGE amounts of energy and money; moreover, it would be INCREDIBLY efficient.
Trains would be more likely to be on time with this innovation.
Your welcome for doing the thinking for you, but that should be expected cause your are a marine...
I could do more editing:
"Don't be so retarded. The train doesn't stop. Therefore it's faster and uses less energy. If you thought about that for ten seconds instead of trying to be snide and pitting your wits against japanese transport engineers you wouldn't look so stupid right now."
Smart people do not usually complain about waiting for trains
Except that there aren't that many smart people in the world.
You welcome for letting you know that you answered a question no one asked.
Even though it was alrady stated, I'll give a go here:
1) it solves the problems that trains encounter when stopping in the station. This has to do with friction, heat, traffic coordination etc. Not having to stop allows for MUCH more traffic. Could conceivably run trains every minute without difficulty. If you only have to wait one or two minutes for a train to pick up the boarding cart, you won't have TIME to complain.
2) as stated in the description of the video (and as explained by several other people) the common complaint is not in the waiting for the train itself, but the constant delays once because of the stops once you board the train. If you rode public transportation, you'd know what we were talking about. Trains are generally on time. When they aren't, its because the train is delayed in other station at a stop. With this system, that won't (or rarely) happen because the train itself never stops.
People will complain about something, sure, but it won't be the train delaying them.
As to your second question, it doesn't create any more problems than already exist so far with train transport; the system is merely adding an element that erases several known problems. Believe it or not, sometimes problems CAN be solved and no new ones created. It happens.
If you only have to stop because it's YOUR stop (by going upstairs to the boarding cart) then your trip will technically be non-stop.
I'm guessing the top car works like a "local" train, and stops at every station, while the bottom one works as an express train, rarely stopping.
If you had enough "top" cars, you could be be depositing a top car, and picking a new one up at the same time, at every station.
What would make it ideal would be for there to be a way for people to move from the top train to the bottom, then you'd never need to stop the train, except for maintenance.
The top car needs to be light, though, or you're just wasting your time. I'd imagine it could be, since it wouldn't need an engine, just brakes.
^- you have GOT to be kidding me.
That's actually a pretty good question. It looks like the capacity of the larger train would be several times the capacity of the loading car, so what if most of the people want to get off at a single destination, like a sporting event or something?
I've herd tranes
I've heard trains crash sometimes. Does this do anything to solve that!?!!
..don't flame me.
He needs an editor. Here is what I could do on such short notice:
That's easy. The energy it takes to stop and accelerate a train at each stop takes is tremendous! Therefore, by using a simple deceleration rail on the top of each train, the boarding cart merely uses the inertia of the already moving train to launch and dock boarding cart. This saves the train having to stop and increases the number of stops/stations you can have in a rail line without increasing the number of trains you would have to run. It would also save HUGE amounts of energy and money; moreover, it would be INCREDIBLY efficient.
Trains would be more likely to be on time with this innovation.
Your welcome for doing the thinking for you, but that should be expected cause your are a marine...
If you're going to be all stuck-up and edit other people's stuff, you can at least correct "your welcome."
It's YOU'RE welcome! YOU'RE! It's a contraction. YOU ARE=YOU'RE! Get it right.
*wink* @ Grinter. Semantics flame fest. Yay!
amazing what undiscovered innovations can be staring us all in the face, eh?
All passengers could ride in the main cabin, moving up to the loading/unloading car when their stop is announced.
Truly a cool idea. Go Taiwan!
Without ever needing to stop, drunks can safely return to driving our trains again. Everybody wins.
Except for the terrorists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gocRym8JEg
Kudos for the up-thinking on this design. Innovative!
Now.., are the people expected to access the lower train through a trap door, or are these smaller moduals just for the quick station to station jumps while the people on the lower sections need to wait for a more major stop in order to disembark?
Just a thought!
Follow-up: Who picks up the rolling head?
Have we addressed what would happen if someone was in the hatch when the loader starts moving?
Follow-up: Who picks up the rolling head?
yes, something like that was mentioned.
I'd actually be more worried about grim decapitations and equipment failure.
That said, I dig infinity train.
Monty Python
by running many smaller trains more frequently.
Actually Asimov had a similar idea, a series of conveyor belts getting progressively faster from platform to track, you hop across them to get up to speed, then board the train.
The principle is the same, that stopping and starting a huge train full of people who don't want to stop is incredibly inefficient.
Asimov's system was more for travel within a city as opposed to between cities, like an infinite metro conveyor.