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Sunday, December 09, 2001
 

I really have to thank Paul Nakada's weblog on Segway for pointing me to Taxi2000. Taxi2000 is a personal rapid transit (PRT) system of computer-controlled, three-passenger vehicles on slim guideways operating on-demand and nonstop direct to any station in the network. Now this is something that will change urban transportation and not the Segway. The Segway is slick but it is not going to get me to downtown Toronto ever. I'll either drive my car or take a PRT. I can't handle public transportation as it doesn't work on my schedule and is just too much of a nuisance to travel by. I'd rather drive my car and get stuck in traffic.

I've been dreaming of a PRT system and coming up with ideas surrounding it ever since developing a real-time train avoidance system for a University term project. My project mates thought I was wacky when I came up with the idea to have a couple trains race around the track to see which one could cover the whole track first (of course without colliding into other trains and obstacles). I couldn't handle doing the same thing everyone had done for years in that course (having the engine pick up a box car or some such thing - boring). It went over really well not only for how well it worked but also for its originality.

I should have known however that there were many people working on similar ideas all along. I've never really researched it and after looking at Taxi2000 and a couple other sites in that field it looks like there is a lot of activity. I'll be keeping my eye more closely on it now.
 
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I said on Nov 11th that if enough suicide bombers killed themselves that eventually we may be rid of them. Well, these kind of suicide bombers are the ones I'm talking about. This moron killed himself but didn't manage to take anyone with him. Perfect.
 
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