Pod Cars of the Past and Future: The Morgantown PRT
The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit system threads its way through West Virginia University, taking thousands of people a day around the campus, non-stop. It's a system that was meant to be the future: so why isn't it?
Thanks to all the WVU Transportation and Parking team for helping with this video! You can find more about the project here: http://transportation.wvu.edu/prt
And the technical manual for the system is here, as a PDF: http://assets.slate.wvu.edu/resources/1610/1406301617.pdf
This video has an error: an interviewee from the university said that the “PRT never shuts down”. That's not true: it's had some reliability problems, and it's closed on University holidays and semester breaks. That line shouldn't have made the edit. See https://wvpress.org/copydesk/insight/wvu-prt-breakdowns-can-cause-misery-panic/ or the full corrections page: https://www.tomscott.com/corrections/
On camera, thanks to MATT GRAY: http://youtube.com/unnamedculprit - http://twitter.com/unnamedculprit - http://mattg.co.uk
And thanks to DAN W: http://twitter.com/iamdanw
And edited by Michelle Martin: http://twitter.com/mrsmmartin !
I'm at http://tomscott.com
on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tomscott
on Facebook at http://facebook.com/tomscott
and on Instagram and Snapchat as @tomscottgo
Видео Pod Cars of the Past and Future: The Morgantown PRT канала Tom Scott
Thanks to all the WVU Transportation and Parking team for helping with this video! You can find more about the project here: http://transportation.wvu.edu/prt
And the technical manual for the system is here, as a PDF: http://assets.slate.wvu.edu/resources/1610/1406301617.pdf
This video has an error: an interviewee from the university said that the “PRT never shuts down”. That's not true: it's had some reliability problems, and it's closed on University holidays and semester breaks. That line shouldn't have made the edit. See https://wvpress.org/copydesk/insight/wvu-prt-breakdowns-can-cause-misery-panic/ or the full corrections page: https://www.tomscott.com/corrections/
On camera, thanks to MATT GRAY: http://youtube.com/unnamedculprit - http://twitter.com/unnamedculprit - http://mattg.co.uk
And thanks to DAN W: http://twitter.com/iamdanw
And edited by Michelle Martin: http://twitter.com/mrsmmartin !
I'm at http://tomscott.com
on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tomscott
on Facebook at http://facebook.com/tomscott
and on Instagram and Snapchat as @tomscottgo
Видео Pod Cars of the Past and Future: The Morgantown PRT канала Tom Scott
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