Tel Aviv, Israel – A new technologically advanced way of travel is being built in Israel.
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The Israel Aerospace Industries campus near Tel Aviv will be host to an experimental method of city travel called the skyTran system, reports The Times of Israel (http://bit.ly/1iCWN61).
The skyTran system – based at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California – uses high-speed pods that can carry two people that float above a track using a magnetic field.
The official joint agreement was signed on Tuesday by the Israel Aerospace Industries’s Lahav Division Director Yosef Melamed and skyTran CEO Jerry Sanders.
The demonstration track will be complete in two years.
The skyTran system will provide a cheaper, faster and more environmentally friendly way of travel.
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Look at the illustrations.
It seems the pods float BELOW the track, and not “above a track” as you stated in the article.
Interesting. Wondering if this is a concept that will become widely used. Or used at all.
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This new contraption will bring a host of other issues. Will there be separate seating, separate pods for the Chasidim? Will it run on Shabbos? Will it go over cemetaries?
This is what is needed in New York, but the politicians don’t seem to think about the future of this city. Every day there are more cars on the roadways soon we will have complete gridlock.