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Personal Rapid Transit For Microsoft? You Prove it!!!

06.23.05 (2:02 pm) [edit]

I like this comment from the previous post:

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PRT punk [outside user] Tuesday 06.21.05 [9:41 am]

What do you care? You don't even live in Redmond. And since this is a private campus, no public money would be used. I thought what upset you is that public money would fund what you see as "bogus".

Wouldn't this be the perfect situation for your position? A private corporation gets to be the guinea-pig for the public, forever proving PRT's bogushood went it inevitiably flops. And judging from your left-wing politics, won't it be great that nasty ol' monopolist Microsoft gets "flim-flamed" itself for a change?

No, I think what you're really afraid of is that it will succeed. For whatever reason you seem to want LRT everwhere with no alternative and PRT is therefore a threat precisely because it will be so effective.
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I really doubt that this "project "will get more than a glance from Bill Gates. Like the rumored PRT project in Dubai, this stuff is meant to impress the suckers - investors and politicians. A savvy investor would ask to see the Taxi 2000 "Risk Factors" document filed with the State of MInnesota. The Risk Factors document clearly states that the headway problem is a problem that no technology can fix...instead Taxi 2000 suggests lobbying for a change in ASCE guidelines for automated transit... fat chance. No professional engineer is going to sign off on a change on safe stopping distances that will kill or injure passengers.

Like the Dubai rumor, I am waiting for some proof that Microsoft is really serious about this proposal.

posted by: David Gow (reply)
post date: 06.24.05 (9:51 am)

To what kind of Risk Factors document are you referring? Would you mind posting the entire passage upon which you are basing your headway claim?

posted by: newbie (reply)
post date: 06.27.05 (5:41 pm)

David Gow:

"Would you mind posting the entire passage upon which you are basing your headway claim?"

Avidor: Taxi 2000 Corporation's Risk Factors document. Ask Taxi 2000 for a copy to post on your website.

posted by: David Gow (reply)
post date: 06.28.05 (9:28 am)

Reply to: Avidor

I'm sure they have lots of documents on investment risk. What are you looking at, something specifically created for the state, or a general prospectus for investors?

Come on Ken, just post the relevant passage. An admission that "the headway problem is a problem that no technology can fix" couldn't take long to type.

posted by: Duluth Don (reply)
post date: 06.28.05 (10:19 am)

Reply to: David

I bet you Kenny-boy can't post it, because he made it up.

posted by: PRTskeptic (reply)
post date: 06.28.05 (5:06 pm)

Reply to: Duluth Don

"Kenny-boy"?

Just for that, you'll have to get your own copy from the Minnesota Dept. of Commerce (Reg D offerings).

posted by: David Gow (reply)
post date: 06.28.05 (9:17 pm)

Reply to: Avidor

Crap, it's like a hostage negotiation. Ignore Don for the moment and let's have the discussion HERE. Stop being coy, post the excerpt, either you have it or you don't.

posted by: KensArmyofSkeptics (reply)
post date: 06.29.05 (9:05 am)

Obviously there are no "headway" risks to PRT since there is no PRT!

Imaginary systems always work in the happy shiny world of the Jetson's.

Oops I am late for work, must get my Personal Jet Pack and fly downtown....

posted by: David Gow (reply)
post date: 06.29.05 (11:57 am)

Reply to: KensArmyofSkeptics

Say, would you be the Risk Factor Ken's been talking about?

Now THAT'S comedy! Gold, I'm giving you here, GOLD!