{"id":4434,"date":"2010-04-22T22:34:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T05:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/?p=4434"},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:26","slug":"a-train-that-never-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2010\/04\/a-train-that-never-stops","title":{"rendered":"A Train that Never Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been pitching this concept for at least seven years now to anyone who would listen: a train that never stops but instead uses accelerating and decelerating pods to shuttle passengers on and off at each approaching stop.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, when I&#8217;ve drawn this out for people, the concept has been met with a reaction along the lines of &#8220;uhhh, good luck with that one!&#8221; The only difference in what I&#8217;ve been pitching and the concept in the video below (<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/10\/04\/clever-train\" target=\"_blank\">via kottke<\/a>), is that my model uses individual pods instead of one big &#8220;group pod&#8221; in order to let people off and on at even more desirable locations, but it&#8217;s great to see someone finally put something like this into a video animation:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"300\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/p9Ig19gYP9o&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/p9Ig19gYP9o&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;hl=en_US&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowScriptAccess=\"always\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If I&#8217;ve thought of it, and now these people in Asia have thought of it, countless others have probably thought of it as well. Now it&#8217;s just time to make it happen. A great train ride is the most enjoyable way to travel, in my opinion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been pitching this concept for at least seven years now to anyone who would listen: a train that never stops but instead uses accelerating and decelerating pods to shuttle passengers on and off at each approaching stop. Normally, when I&#8217;ve drawn this out for people, the concept has been met with a reaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellany","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}