crossposted from: https://feddit.it/post/29954054
Source and additional pics:
https://beige.party/@Lana/116684403003398772
Also from the same thread:
For people who aren’t intimately knowledgeable about the Seattle rail system, the Mt Baker station is an elevated platform. Meaning she had to have driven the WRONG WAY on a railroad about 40 feet up in the air for SEVERAL MILES to end up here.
Edit: it looks like it was not “several miles” but less then one mile; a notable feat anyway:
That’s the new CRT, Car Rapid Transit. In the future they might link it with several car.
Hook them up in a chain. Like a… transit-chain
Like a trucker convoy, but on rails?
My god… Someone call the patent office!
10 years ago, I had a friend unironically describe to me how self driving cars would solve traffic jams by communicating and coordinating with each other to drive at high speed, in a line, close to each other, with just inches between each car…
“bro… you just invented a really shitty, inefficient train…”