Car take parking space, but 80% of the time is not in use. Of cause EVs and autonomous driving cars resolve it, however, lets think what could be done today.
Affordable (Shanghai Maglev is too expensive and too rigid for cities), comfortable, reliable and agile (most of us prefer not to have any exchange stations and travel from home) carrying transport system could benefit all the city citizens.
There are plenty of city small car grid connected concepts - Most of them work on mechanical bases:
MISTER, skycabs, bmdesign, CyberTran, ecoprt.com, ruf.dk, .swedetrack.com, JPods, tts-21.com, Cabintaxi, Beamways AB
Some on maglev (magnet levitation) - Interstatetraveler, SkyTran
Most of them are restricted in their own grid (rails) and only few provide ability to go beyond: TriTrack, ModuTram
I personally think the SkyTran has all the chances to spread out from its test loop, but I propose that out of the grid system is the right one to flourish.
Here is my offer
The special car which can drive on the road 1 and slide on electric magnetic rails 6 (the previous post). Due to electromagnetic suspension 7 the wheels 2 lift up and the electromagnet ski 4 pop down from the bottom of the car on the wishbone levels (the mechanics shown is wrong, however keep the ski under car and the smooth transition possible). The hook 5 works only as safety stop in electricity shut of emergency.
Although this vehicles should have a lot of restrictions on weight, size, speed (again to be light), plus some maintenance responsibility doubts, I believe such system has more chances to succeed because of franchise like agile model. Door to door factor is crucial - you may own such boggy, drive in the rail grid, will be lifted up and driven by computers, than drive out in your neighborhood destination. Such system is not compete but facilitate the era of the self driving cars.
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