I've changed the thumbnail text in the meantime, but the original promise stands: if your city builds this, I will go there personally to point and laugh at it.
Well then! I am going to go to our town meetings to get this approved immediately! If we also get a Tesla hyperloop tunnel to go underneath the city would that be 2 videos of content? 🤣
@@quaka1312 Works what I think slavery worked very well gulags also worked perfect people just don't get very excited about some things that work so well. yes taking cars away and stuffing everyone into barracks will work if you maintain decent police forces to enforce that hell
@@deltaxcd I don't think that's what he advocates for. Cars do have a place - they're a fantastic way to travel long distances with lots of gear, especially if you know you're going to end up in the woods or somewhere where it would be unreasonable to expect public transport. They're also very cost and power efficient when all 5 seats are filled. A 100km inter-city trip is often cheaper by car than by train for 5 passengers. But this whole channel is more about urban transport and planning. So unless you're hauling stuff, are disabled, or have any other good reason, cars really should be a last resort.
@@XMysticHerox cups without handles work fine when they're thick enough to keep the walls cool. Or it's one of those fancy ones with the air pocket between the inside and outside which stays nice and cool. For a thin-walled coffee mug though it doesn't make sense.
the worst thing is: In some places, a gondola or cable car would have some advantages over other transit options (even if it is just acting as a tourist attraction) the pods being self propelled means they lose the one thing cable cars have going for them, the ability to go up almost any hill.
They lose the second thing: energy efficiency. You'll note that in many cases gondolas and cable cars, especially those changing elevations, are at least paired so to exploit the mass of the compartment(s) going down to help lift the mass of the one(s) going up.
Thats why they are alteady in use in some cities in latin America and they are quite the sucesso. Most notably in El alto- La Paz, Bolívia and Medellín, Colombia. They are directly connected with other modes kf transit and manage to shorten distances between locations drastically because instead of a bus climbing a hill with serpentines while the cable cars go in a straight line
That's why you often find them on ski routes (I don't know what they're called, but basically where you go ski you'll often find them to go up again) The pods aren't self-propelled though, they are attached to a cable that is pulled by a much bigger and more efficient engine (what Adam said) This also allows them to go up consistently as if they were a single unit, meaning that they kind of act like a train (but they tend to be less space efficient) They're a niche solution to a niche problem Also I now realised I probably misunderstood your comment but I won't let all my effort in writing this go to waste
At moment I heard the word "Pods" I knew it was going to be bad. Individualizing the space like that is done so rich people can use the system without have to sit near and think about how their lifestyle affects poor people. That's the fundamental idea behind all of these "innovations": creating a "public" transit system that has a class divide.
I love how no matter which problem it is with urban traffic, no matter how complicated anyone wants to make it sound, when you boil it down to the essentials the answer always, always, always comes down to the same things -- bikes, buses, trams and trains.
@@suspendedtwice4sayingrasis261 tbh, the average [insert mode of transport] is quite useless without dedicated infrastructure, with the exeption of walking and using animals.
@@suspendedtwice4sayingrasis261 So is this. At least with bikes, busses, trams, and trains the transport tech part has already been developed and paid for and all we have to do is build the infrastructure. It's easier and cheaper to repaint a road, run more busses, or reopen pre-existing rail lines than it is to build a network of cable cars and associated stations.
Your ability to take any 'revolutionizing' transit idea and make it better by chaining of pods linked to each other and having dedicated stops along the way while making jokes is unparalleled 😂🤣 Thank you for raising awareness about better public transportation system 🙂
@@gradeyundery4939 no he paid 5$ to Adam as a tangible sign of appreciation. I'm pretty sure he, Adam, will appreciate this small gesture. If u too have money to donate, be it a small amount, & liked the video, u should also do that.
@@gradeyundery4939 I love how mad you are about people donating to creators they like. Next you’re going to complain when you find out about charities .-.
@@Adrenaline_chaser what you said should be more like "If you'd enjoy his content and want to support him more than just a like and a follow, go to his patreon/do the same as here", and less like "If you have money and like his vids, donate, even if it's not much". There's a slight difference
Someone on Twitter asked about their bidirectional throughput per hour to which they responded with "much higher than you might think" to which someone rightfully pointed out that they were so embarrassed by how low it is that they didn't even want to say.
@@jdvictor1921 there are actually many benefits of "poddification" as you put it, it's just nobody actually thinks about leveraging them with they come up wtih their new transportation systems ideas because they miss the point.
Carcinization is the term for different species independently evolving the body-plan of a crab. There needs to be a similar term for Adam turning these pie-in-the-sky transport projects into trains.
Thanks, now I know why cancer (aka crab constellation) is caused by carcinogens. Never heard the word carcinization but clearly carcin has roots in cancer and crabs.
I’ve just revolutionised the swimming pod by adding a hyper eco vortex generator. It can now float up the river as well! Edit: I’ve just revolutionised it again! The swimming pod is now fitted with A.I. enhanced super foils so it can now glide in a state of levitation above the surface of the water!
The US is becoming so annoying. The right-wing keeps pushing for more "Car-friendly" spaces while making public space inaccesible for people and bikes. And then this... Tech companies reinventing the wheel. How do you even manage to live there guys?
Here in La Paz, Bolivia, we have a cable car system instead of metro because the city is built in mountains. It works very well but it's not individually modular or all of those things that want to re invent the wheel
@@jannetteberends8730 those trolley buses would then need to go up the serpentines, traveling much larger distances to arrive at the same location. It would be much slower, subject to traffic jams, or exclusively block a lot of valuable space on steep slopes, and generally be much more complicated. Just check the height of highest and lowest points of La Paz and how far, I mean close, they are apart ...
@@jannetteberends8730 don't worry. If one doesn't know what kind of topography la paz has, it isn't immediately obvious why in this specific city this kind of solution makes so much more sense ...
Or something you’d see in a movie which didn’t get the rights to actually use a real transit company’s name in their film because it was too expensive. 😅
It has only gotten worse over time, companies can't really pick a name that isn't 1. An English word misspelled for no reason 2. A made up word It's fucking infuriating to keep seeing these squeaky-clean inane monochrome logos with slimy, dark business practices hiding underneath.
@@sophiatrocentraisin most of the time it's not the technical side that deserve to blame In my own experience, it's a "visionary" someone in other area like business or others that has bright idea on the surface and they recruit the one who actually understand, "i want this this this and this". It went downhill from that point
I have to admit, I didn't even think about it till you pointed it out, but the fact that their revolutionary transit video shows a city road with 5 lanes of traffic in, really says a lot about their philosophy on transportation.
I was skeptical of Normal Coffee Mug Solutions initially, but once you experience the Epic 420 Hyper Handle you start to understand why they're shaking up the coffee mug space.
Thank you for offering to come to any city using this. This will surely be the last argument that makes local politicians buy them. Such an increase in tourism just cannot be declined
The best part of every video is the part where you gradually turn the new "revolutionary" technology into a train or electric bus. Gets me every time. :D
just like that optomization AI that kept on reinventing trains every time they ran it. Even after they hard coded it to never make trains, it just started making very long bendy busses
@@mrlaz9011 to be fair, they do have limitations. Which is why trams and busses exist (we'll ignore ships on the basis that the trains are the other side of the equation with them). Note the similarities between these and the train: The differences are entirely those that are actually necessary to solve the problems that render a regular train non-viable for the usecase, and they are otherwise very train-like.
You have no clue how happy it makes me that some of your go-to stock footage for public transportation is Dutch public transportation. I regularly get upset about everything my government does or doesn't do but this reminds me that they do one thing right: public transportation. And of course bikes, but that speaks for itself
That is not due to the current government, however. The VVD is one of the most pro-car parties in the Netherlands and they have decreased funding for public transportation. Dutch public transportation is still good, but that is despite the current government, not because of it. Other parties have much more ambitious plans for public transport, biking, urban planning.
I visited the Netherlands and I have to say it changed my life and view on transportation. It's leaps and bounds better than even NYC. NYC is probably the best in the US so that shows how bad it is in America. If there was anywhere I could choose to start my life over it would be the Netherlands.
@@duanerackham9567 we really do have our issues but I'm pretty happy I grew up here. I think about how happy I am I was born in Europe and not specifically the US at least once a week
In Budapest, if you already mentioned it, in some new buses they revolutionized the stop buttons. Now you don't need to push it, using valuable energy of your fingers, that was totally horrible, it really hurts afterwards every single time. I completely stopped using buses because of these pushing difficulties and finger issues, I even had to see my doctor. But now my prayers have been answered, the new Butt0n5 are touch sensitive. So sensitive in fact, that if you lean to the Butt0n, with your back, even in winter jackets, even just to the side of the button, then the stop sign is activated. No more tiring fingering action, you can sign with your back, even without you noticing it, and the bus stops in empty stations without anyone wanting it. How convenient, modern, and comfortable is this! And the bus driver can also release some loud swear words after the 3nd pointless stopping; without this invention they had to shut up for the whole trip. How cool is that! I wish more cities will use this revolutionary modern innovative technology in the near future.
Really?? That's bad. I am hopelessly fighting against "touchy" stuff being put everywhere without a consideration of its real usability vs "normal" buttons. Sometimes I'm thinking if we have right engineers in right places...
I was in Copenhagen yesterday, the amount of people on bikes is so impressive, from all walks of life. People carrying kids to school, supplies to workshops, groceries from shops. It's a big city but it never feels too congested.
Copenhagen impressive? You have to see Amsterdam, we have huge underground parking garages just for bikes. And so many people biking that you can easily get hit by one.
Agreed actually. Then again, Adam pointed out that anything more efficient "breaks" the status quo. Chucking this very thing in very steep terrain or an express connection from flat terrain to a highly mountainous town alone will break the status quo.
Not only there, there is also argument for them, when there is even a man made obstacle in the way. We have exhibition grounds and some smallish hill in Brno. A gondola system was proposed to link two major transport hubs. One at local teaching hospital, one at the exhibition grounds. The idea was, that the gondolas could go over the exhibition grounds without us having to split it.
@@karima1558 that's probably because this startup is a scam and could only afford to get an advertisement company to work on the graphics for one afternoon
I think they are planning building teleports in Neom - The Line. It is the only way how to get anyone from any space to any other in 20 minutes in a 170 km long city. So we may use teleports sooner than expected :-)
@@samuela-aegisdottir If you look at the map of Perth in Western Australia, Perth's metropolitan area extends along the coast to Two Rocks in the north and Singleton to the south, a distance of approximately 125 kilometres. The Transperth transport system has quick electric trains running almost the length of the metro area and is rapidly extending the railway network. At major railway stations there is rapid connection with the bus network and the ticket system allows passengers to transfer at any point between trains, buses and ferries without needing a new ticket. It's not perfect but it gets most passengers to within a couple of hundred metres of their destination.
Here is the thing, góndolas can be ACTUALLY an amazing transportation Sistem as long as they are aplied on very specific niches, just look at the Góndolas of Medellín by Metrocable; they are run by the same Metro who runs the buses and the Metro line; and offer a direct route to the Comunas on the mountains; is peak Urban design and i love it.
I think there are a few cities in the US where they would be useful. Pittsburgh and San Francisco come to mind. Or if some group of nuts build something akin to Scala ad Caelum IRL.
Exactly - they only have a practical application when the route involves travelling over a mountainous area where the incline would be too high for trains or trams and so the only other alternative would be expensive tunneling.
They do have applications. Some ski resorts use gondola lifts for longer distances when chairlifts wouldn't be feasible. But they don't have applications for "revolutionizing urban transit." Even most steep hills are better climbed with a funicular. Only long steep hills that can't be accessed in other ways and have communities at the top that need a connection to the bottom are good candidates for gondola lifts.
@@ayoutubechannelname yes but the question is less "are these better than existing gondolas?" And more "is this better than other options like trams or busses"
Gondolas can work, just in very specific area's, for example in Medellin Colombia, they are used in place of buses that where the roads are too narrow and steep for buses. Also Medellin has an extensive bus and elevated train system, the train system is connected to the gondola line from what I remember.
The other area I’ve seen is river crossings where clearance for ships is an issue and building a bridge tall enough would be cost and space prohibitive
Born Medellin and yes exactly!!! It’s been transportation that’s played a huge role in my country’s history and the gondolas are a point of pride in my city!
Though those are niche cases and more a case of circumstance. They would have build a tram if they could have but they couldn't because of topography. Gondola's are a system you build because you have to, not because you want to.
@@MrMarinus18 There are so man practical problems with just suspending a box on wires high in the air and pulling it around that...yes, you really shouldn't even be resorting to something like that unless ground level is, for some reason or other, not an option. Like the cases brought up in this comment thread, extreme steepness or impracticality of (otherwise much safer and more stable) bridges. If the ground is viable use it. A bike, car, or tram won't suddenly fall out of the sky and crush you to death if structural failure occurs and aren't a massive pain to tow off to the repair yard.
It's clear there are wormholes in this new high tech transportation technology. It's astonishing how far research in physics has led to this. Couple of weeks back, we saw a proof of concept wormhole in Google's quantum computer that only sent a quantum particle (not even an atom) through a wormhole. Now we are seeing car sized pods being able to use wormholes, truly a fascinating time to be alive /s
Um, where? I'm watching them and the only thing I see is the lighting briefly making one of them match the colour of the sky behind, which makes it look hard to see for a second
You know that meme about how Americans will measure things using literally anything other than the metric system? Americans will consider any way to get from point A to point B other than the ways we already have.
@@qjtvaddict They do work in cities though. Many cities around the world with comparable density and population have trams and it works fine. To connect cities you'd need something bigger true, like a train
the important part is "individualised pods". just like cars, they allow different kinds of people to never mix, which is obviously a big problem in the US because their population is a heterogeneous mix in many ways. planes may seem to be an exception, but they have the different classes system and most people don't fly daily, while they will use cars/public transport daily
"Your middle finger, your ring finger, the tricks you can do with this thing" the levels of common sense snark is off the charts and absolutely hilarious. Great video.
If I've learned anything from watching this channel its: 1. Billionare/dictator mega projects are always ill throughout dumb as fuck hunks of wasted material, money, and energy. 2. Every transport problem can be solved with a train, tram, or bus.
From the very moment you started talking about fixing this idea, I knew it was going to end up being a regular tram. I would feel smug about it, but I don't think it was particularly hard to guess.
I found an article about "new" cable cars and instantly searched for Adam Someting to say "trains work better". Yes they do, except on water and mountains. Well, we are a northern european city that's divided by the ocean, a direct route from the western part to the eastern part (at the moment via ship, which is absurdly expensive) takes ten minutes - the bus needs 40. Now we are getting trains, too. But it will need 40 minutes.
Hi from Melbourne. We adopted the TR4M system about 100 years ago and one of their articulated gondolas just passed my front door. I can't wait for the Swyft Cities system to take all my money!
Don't forget that after you've put them along busy corridors that you can also have bicycle parking facilities (like you find everywhere in the Netherlands; Utrecht Centraal has 12,500 underground parking spaces). It increases the amount of people who can easily access by 9-16x, quadratic to the 3-4x speed of cycling.
Just the idea of waiting in line to get in lmao... the line would need to be huge. This creator clearly never used public transport during peak hours. We're talking thousands and thousands of people in 1 spot.
The only place I can think cable cars have worked as transportation on metropolitan area is La Paz, Bolivia. And that's mostly because of the extreme geography (compared to mostly flat cities)
In fact, they aren't even comparable. The cable cars in Bolivia work with lines, as most public transports do. But this stupid proposal is just Uber on cables, and they are self propelled, which makes them close to be a 1 car monorail.
@@claudiobizama5603 yup, normal cable cars/gondolas actually have a range of uses, most famously as ski lifts to go up steep inclines. This "revolutionary transit" is simply a "sky uber" scam.
There's quite a few cities in South America that have really turned the teleferico into a legit mass transit option for cities with very mountainous geography and/or extremely complicated urban layouts (favelas and the like). This DiswuptorPod 2000 or whatever just makes it lower capacity, less efficient (self propelled vehicles) and much more mechanically complicated. It's the gadgetbahn of teleferico systems.
Exactly. Revolutionising traffic and transportation is not about inventing shiny, futuristic bs projects, but utilising the effective methods we already have in hand. It's basically a political question against the current hegemony of our four-wheeled masters...
That already exists in Europe you should say. And that's the problem, Americans will never do anything that resembles borrowing ideas from "the outside" they are the most closed minded and supremacist people on the planet.
Actually, I do see a good concept in their render image. Do you see those tubes on rails to the right in the image, under the sheds? That looks amazing, we should build more of those. Wow, these guys are so smart!
To someone who thinks this video is against innovation It's not. It's not against innovation, it's against reinventing the wheel, and a shittier wheel at that
The urban cable car is actually useful, but in certain areas only, like urban areas with a lot of mountains This system is a bit widespread in Mexico City, but even the government admitted that it is of low capacity and is only functional for a few people.
A cable car is basically just an alternative for a bridge. So any proposal suggesting cable cars on level ground is the height of redundant department of redundancy.
Of its low capacity its built wrong. 10p hondolas or even 3s massive ones from doppelmayr for example can carry thousands of people every hour, hence their use on skifoeld where every oeson will use them half the time they are there
Never thought I'd see Murcia (Spain) in this channel but there we go (That's the Murcia tram, "TdM" for Tranvia de Murcia, at the end of the video). Spanish public infrastructure getting some much deserved love!
I know that's not what this video is about, but at 4:28 the way that things whole entire leg just shwoops up to avoid the car (while the rest of it keeps going as if nothing happened) just made me burst out laughing
I find it amusing that they have the slick CGI render but so little attention to detail that the pods going to the left pop out of existence before they're out of frame
1) I'm somewhat disturbed by the pods heading off-screen to the left simply vanishing into another dimension. 2) pods coming ftom the left seem to have no choice but to turn right after crossing the road. This animation delightfully glosses over how pods change route from one suspension cable to another.
What's super interesting is that I could see a possible usage of this idea (at least a gondola system) in mountainous places, too steep and too built up to provide a transit system... but then in those situations people built gondolas 🤣
I know some cities with challenging topography have used conventional cable ways in the past and present. They are useful for places that have terrain unsuited for rail or road based infrastructure, plus the tech is over a century old and is well understood. Armies in the first world war even used them supply troops fighting in the alps on both sides, so we know they work for both passengers and cargo. I'm curious to know your take on conventional cable ways.
It just sucks that idiots see cableways as a transportation/traffic "solution" and pushing it on cities _with flat terrain,_ overestimating its usefulness and misappropriating/improperly implementing it.
@@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk The system demo on their website clearly demonstrates straightforward switching ability using a short section of suspension railway to change between different fixed cables. This enables not only off-line stations, but also spur connections.
I was in La Paz Bolivia a little while ago and they have a fantastic traditional Gondola system that can take you all over the city. Works really well for the significant height changes that they have to deal with. They also seems to work great on the flat areas above the valley but maybe a good ol train would have been even better in those cases.
Since they need the gondola system for the height changes, at some point it's just easier to run it over the flat areas as well rather than introduce another mode of transport (train). But my knowledge of Bolivia is nil.
Was looking for this comment! The La Paz gondolas are indeed fantastic, part of the issue was also the really unstable soil I believe. It also works really well because people you know, *share* the gondola. Really cool and unique transit system
I love how lots of inefficient "revolutionary" transit systems can be added to with improvements to just make a train. It just shows how people see what they want to see, think things will work, but then don't actually think them out, and compare the system to current public transit.
In vienna we have city-bikes, a (basically) free bike you can lend from a fully automatic station and return it to another, abundant in the areas with many bikelanes (mostly inner districts). Not really that damn hard to conceive or use. Costs 0,6€ for half an hour, or half that amount if you own an annual public transport ticket for vienna. Easy to implement and do, cheap, and the stations are all on the sidewalk or pedestrian areas, so it doesn't even "cost" precious street space...
We used to have those docked bikes in Melbourne, Australia, but it was eventually discontinued. The first ride costs $2 for half an hour, then increased by $1 in half hour blocks. If your second & subsequent rides were less than half an hour, those rides were free. So you could basically use those bikes for short trips for just $2 plus a refundable deposit. Now we have dockless bicycles & scooters by Neutron, Uber, & Lime. But these are pretty expensive...
@@jonathantan2469 Yeah, weird. In Vienna we have all those services too, but they are 100% private, while the city itself provides the bikes as an alternative for everyone. In fact, they just invested 2,3 million euros more for that. And don't even get me started at these bullshit scooters. They are everywhere and all those mentally challenged bozos drop them across every sidewalk once done. This goes so far, that the city is honestly thinking about forbidding them entirely.
@@jinxhead4182 The docked bicycles were council-owned too. But they failed due to a whole bunch of factors, even though we had decent bike lanes & bike paths around the city. Firstly, many of these were centered around tourist spots in the city centre, besides the city centre's train stations and some public spaces with lots of foot traffic. Secondly, our transit payment system is time based, rather than distance based. So if you arrive in the city centre by train, bus, or tram & still have time left on your token (card or mobile based), you would prefer to take another tram or bus for the last mile instead of paying a deposit & fee to cycle. Later we made most of the city centre a free zone for trams, making the bikes moot as a last mile method.
Take something flexible like cycling and oblige people to travel only to specific locations (where the parking may be full). Require registration and deposits, making the system less friendly for children and people from out of town. Make it less safe because tourists don’t have a cycle helmet, and make it require power and data to release a bike. You’ve taken a 19th century piece of tech, added some 21st century magic and made it far less useful. Sorry... but I think ‘smart’ cycling still has a lot of bugs that need to be ironed out.
Unlike most Tech bro gadgetbons I can see a few niche applications such as in theme parks, retirement communities, university campuses, and other small concentrated areas but revolutionizing city wide transit no.
Funnily enough, regular gondalas are used in precisely those situations in a number of places already. At least when the elevation changes are such that alternatives aren't significantly better. Actually, a few cities with Particularly steep and hilly geography Do use them as part of the public transportation network (though they still use more conventional systems where suitable).
@@laurencefraser The difference with this is that unlike gondolas, this system supports T-intersections. So you can build a grid of these which each vehicle can navigate through independently, point-to-point, non-stop.
One thing that just confuses me about the 'individualized transport' is. Like. You are suspended above the street. You need stations or Batman's grapple hook, so it would just be a private train anyway.
As someone who takes the train every day to work in Los Angeles, i really wish public transit was more wide spread and readily available. I usually arrive faster than i wouldve otherwise driving, save a ton of money on gas and parking, and generally have a really consistent schedule that isnt dependent on how heavy traffic is. Love it
If I took the train everyday instead of driving it would take me 2.5 hours to get to my job instead of 40 minutes in a car, assuming I don't miss a train and then I am at the mercy of the train's schedule and no longer have the freedom to make my own schedule. That is a pretty huge difference.
@@GeorgeMonetin many traffic clogged cities you would be at the mercy of traffic jams and accidents in your car anyway. Plus, since time is money much of that extra two hours would be spent paying for the car.
I grew up in LA. More trains would be great. BUt then i wonder. If you hade a tain that like goes down the 101. How do you get to your house that is smack dab in the middle of the valley? Its so spread out it starts to seem like it would take forever to get home depending on where you live in the grid
Here in LA they keep trying to make our giant sweeping boulevards into bike friendly streets, which is insane waste of space, instead of idk just going back to streetcars and trams which the city grid was DESIGNED FOR. Truly a tragedy that such a high number of people don't realize how awesome trains are.
@@Gerishnakov That was also motivated by racism since white people didn't want to ride in the same public transportation as Black people. Black people subsequently bought as many cars as possible to avoid segregation in public transport.
@@galactic2728 EXACTLY. The reason so many Americans would rather be stuck in car traffic for hours and consider that more acceptable than travelling on a bus, subway, or streetcar/tram is that they would rather be surrounded by a dangerous metal cage than sit next to other people, ESPECIALLY people who look differently from them.
I just love to see how one guy that is GENUINELY interested in these topics fixes all of the problems by himself, to show that not always you need a thousand people team to do something. Love your channel man, please keep going, it's ridiculous how many resources these people waste to naver come up with anything decent.
I remember riding something like this at an Amusement park. It took you across the whole park at a leisurely pace to see everything. So we are just turning cities into amusement parks now?
I mean, yes, actually. Large amusement parks often have to use transit systems similar to that of a city as they seldom have guests drive from one location to another. Now, of course these parks are designed around pedestrian use and can more effectively plan to have these systems match demand perfectly. Additionally, the infrastructure maintenance doesn’t need to be cheap but yes design cities like amusement parks is very close to the idea.
There are a few specific use cases where gondolas make sense, normally where there’s some geographic obstacle like a steep hill, canyon, river, etc. that you want to cross. But you’re right, in a typical city they just don’t make sense. And thumbs up for cat! 👍😺
Having transportation above streets is not always a bad idea. But individual pods are always ineffective - an expensive way how to transport very few people. On the other hand, in the context of public transport, cable cars or above ground trams and trains make perfect sense in some cities. They are not anything revolutionary though.
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Wrongly Spelled Swift already made one of the biggest mistakes in economical design at the very beginning: *Never build suspended unless necessary.* There's a reason why Wuppertal has one of the only public suspended monorail systems in the world. Its unique geography requires this niche use because there is no space for more normal rail infrastructure.
i love these videos so much watching adam shitting on these ideas and making them into either a bus or a train or whatever is just the funniest shit ever, even if it's been done and redone over like 500 videos. keep it up, adam, we need more of this - it's hilarious
@@zljmbo Which is built like an absolute tank with all the redundancy you'd expect of the Germans. This looks like it's held up by popsicle sticks and a prayer.
Commie block balconies are indestructible. Hungarian panelház were built to last 30-40 years but they last forever. If maintained properly. Without earthquakes here, they will outlast every other housing in the country.
@@tjenadonn6158 funnily enough the schwebebahn did have one major incident back like 20 years ago, but less than 10 died and around 50 got only injured despite the whole thing literally crashing down. Plus it was because of human error, not the infrastructure itself. There had been a crane still attached to the rail which had recently been renovated and the train hit it.
No matter how many times I watch Adam reinvent Trains, Trams, Subways, Metros, Busses etc., it never get's old Edit: I realize I must be the 254th person to say this but that just proves it as fact
Gondolas are great for ski mountains, except that they always reek of weed. Now imagine having to ride in a box that stinks of pot or cigarettes every time you want to go somewhere outside of walking distance.
You're missing out on the actual revolution Swyft is proposing. If you watch the pods go towards the left side of the screen, you'll see that they get de-spawned once they get close, thereby killing everyone inside, eliminating waste!
Apart from being less efficient than a tram or bus, what exactly is the difference to a conventional aerial ropeway? - Single pods driving on a cable: literally every aerial ropeway (ok, pulled by the cable, but individual motors are less efficient anyway) - Stopovers: can be found in every other skiing area - Decoupling from the cable at stations: most aerial ropeways with small cabins, and it should be comparably simple to allow others to pass by - Switches: exist, but not useable at high speeds, as far as I've seen So the only new thing here is the stopping on demand and the switches. Great. To be fair though, I can see aerial ropeways as a solution for some niche applications where it would be difficult or expensive to built a train track. For example, there is a new aerial ropeway in Toulouse, which connects some of the outskirts tangentially. I haven't had a chance to visit the city since it was opened, but I would love to hear your opinion about it!
I sort of entertained this because in very very rare cases gondolas can be a transport solution such as in Medellin. Then as soon as I heard 'self-contained autonomous pod' I checked out
Also in cities like Vegas, where people are often going building-to-building quite often, but there also is a heavy flow of traffic on the roads that makes it difficult to cross. Yes, you can argue that the entire Strip should be one massive train line, but in the meantime, this is a fairly sensible solution. Get in a pod, tell it you want to go to a building five blocks down and across the street, and you are there right away. Plus a lot of buildings already have elevated entrances or balconies that could easily be refitted into platforms.
@@nibs7252 I've not been to Vegas so can't comment - but if a city is that car dependant it needs a weird pseudo-monorail cum Uber system just to cross a street that's pretty depressing
Was recently in Vietnam and there is some massive company that builds garish gondolas all over the country. Cat Ba Island had to fight hard to limit the route, monster pylons.
The coffee mug joke at the start didn't quite land with me since I was literally drinking coffee out of an Ember mug while watching it. If you don't know, the Ember mug is a smart, bluetooth-enable mug with a battery and small heater inside that maintains your beverage at exactly the temperature you set it to. It's ridiculous, over-designed, completely unnecessary...and I love it.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 There's an app on your phone you use to set the temperature you want. Honestly, once you've set it you don't really need to use it.
Have you looked into Jacque Fresco and his visions for transportation (and resource based economy)? Way ahead of his time. Even at 101yo, still died too young.
That's another good telltale sign of a tech grift. If your 12-year old brain can imagine it, you can bet that at least one reputable engineer already did. And if they didn't get excited enough about it to try it, you can bet that there's a whole bunch of problems with the idea.
Did your twelve-year old brain figure out how to make a T-intersection with it? I ask because it turns out that this system supports T-intersections which means therefore that it can support roundabouts, spurs, collectors, arterials, and offline stations. It's also quite easy to see how it can mix public passenger, private passenger, and cargo trips. Try that with a ski gondola. You can't.
@@ayoutubechannelname Gondola systems have been able to take cabins off the cable for the night since forever, so diverting vehicles at low speeds IS possible. So yeah, you CAN in fact do all of the things you mention with a bog standard ski gondola system. The gondolas just have to be slow, which their demonstrator system happens to be as well. As long as they don't claim that they can already pipe gondolas though the intersection points at highway speeds, there's nothing new here as far as I'm concerned.
@@Pystro Another important thing from what I can tell is that their cable doesn't move. This vastly simplifies the process of expanding the network as each additional spur doesn't require setting up a bullwheel at the end.
Oh Adam. My sweet super child. If you payed attention you would see a cart disappear at 2:12 on the left edge of the screen indicating that this is not a cable car but a teleportation device. This is revolutionary, indeed!
I've changed the thumbnail text in the meantime, but the original promise stands: if your city builds this, I will go there personally to point and laugh at it.
You have to wonder if the investors even know there are ski-lift companies building these gondola systems in multiple countries?
Well then! I am going to go to our town meetings to get this approved immediately! If we also get a Tesla hyperloop tunnel to go underneath the city would that be 2 videos of content? 🤣
Can you talk about why Russia's transit infrastructure sucks sometime?
Preferably when it's being repaired or someone's getting rescued off it.
I will stand next to you and also laugh
Any time I see these things done in pristine 3d, I get creeped out.
Based king and general
It's not the uncanny valley that does it, it's the uncanny stupidity.
Why am I not surprised that the guys I enjoy for historical content support the guy(s) I enjoy for city planning?
@@rainbowkrampus I feel like if they build a prototype, I would be less annoyed
Good thing then it looks like a 3D render that was made 10+ years ago.
I know you can always see the "whoops, I just invented trains again" coming from a mile away, but I never get tired of seeing it.
4:32
Technically in this case it would be a tram but close enough
@@user-op8fg3ny3j Trams are just Trains except now they **am in** your city
😂💯💯💯
not eally a train more like floating cars but the buged was too little to even render the 3d animation or basicly a way to mkae cars floate
I will never get tired of Adam re-inventing the train by making minor improvements to "revolutionary" startup transport companies
If only he stopped trying to destroy car infrastructure and stuff everyone into big boxes
@@deltaxcd u mean like in every other country ever (it works very well for them)??! :O
@@quaka1312 Works what I think slavery worked very well gulags also worked perfect people just don't get very excited about some things that work so well.
yes taking cars away and stuffing everyone into barracks will work if you maintain decent police forces to enforce that hell
@@deltaxcd bro ur so american it's not even funny xDDDD
@@deltaxcd I don't think that's what he advocates for. Cars do have a place - they're a fantastic way to travel long distances with lots of gear, especially if you know you're going to end up in the woods or somewhere where it would be unreasonable to expect public transport. They're also very cost and power efficient when all 5 seats are filled. A 100km inter-city trip is often cheaper by car than by train for 5 passengers.
But this whole channel is more about urban transport and planning. So unless you're hauling stuff, are disabled, or have any other good reason, cars really should be a last resort.
That coffee cup analogy was on point.
Also of course they called the gondola a pod.
What they gotta do? That's basically everything those people learnt in University: many a something about pod.
Idk the cups without handles do work if they are properly designed.
@@XMysticHerox cups without handles work fine when they're thick enough to keep the walls cool. Or it's one of those fancy ones with the air pocket between the inside and outside which stays nice and cool. For a thin-walled coffee mug though it doesn't make sense.
@@ViciousVinnyD Problem is the vacuum ones are freaking expenisve.
Pods are so hot right now...
You’d think that the whole “Adam meticulously improves a stupid idea until it just becomes a train” would get stale, but no, it is the best part😂
These ideas keep evolving into -crabs- trains
everytime I watch these I'm just anticipating it now
@@alanbareiro6806 biology peak is crabs, mobility is trains, all is connected to the final society
The moment he starts improving on the design I just start laughing uncontrollably because I know what's coming
@@krosskreut3463 Crab train society
the worst thing is: In some places, a gondola or cable car would have some advantages over other transit options (even if it is just acting as a tourist attraction) the pods being self propelled means they lose the one thing cable cars have going for them, the ability to go up almost any hill.
They lose the second thing: energy efficiency. You'll note that in many cases gondolas and cable cars, especially those changing elevations, are at least paired so to exploit the mass of the compartment(s) going down to help lift the mass of the one(s) going up.
@@keith6706 good point
Thats why they are alteady in use in some cities in latin America and they are quite the sucesso. Most notably in El alto- La Paz, Bolívia and Medellín, Colombia. They are directly connected with other modes kf transit and manage to shorten distances between locations drastically because instead of a bus climbing a hill with serpentines while the cable cars go in a straight line
So, basically, this is something that already exists except worse. They invented a grand total of nothing.
That's why you often find them on ski routes (I don't know what they're called, but basically where you go ski you'll often find them to go up again)
The pods aren't self-propelled though, they are attached to a cable that is pulled by a much bigger and more efficient engine (what Adam said)
This also allows them to go up consistently as if they were a single unit, meaning that they kind of act like a train (but they tend to be less space efficient)
They're a niche solution to a niche problem
Also I now realised I probably misunderstood your comment but I won't let all my effort in writing this go to waste
gotta love how everytime Adam deals with techbro pod transit, it always ends up through logical evolution into a tram or a train.
They’re always smart enough to work out a solution but never enough to work out that it’s already been done better.
It's carcinization in transit - on a long enough timescale, and with enough optimization, any transit system becomes some form of a train.
Crab and Train: *shake hands in agreement*
@@cloudynguyen6527 Truly, the ideal world would be crabs riding around on a large, modern train system.
Reminds me of city skyline where that's pretty much the meta when it comes to transportation
At moment I heard the word "Pods" I knew it was going to be bad. Individualizing the space like that is done so rich people can use the system without have to sit near and think about how their lifestyle affects poor people. That's the fundamental idea behind all of these "innovations": creating a "public" transit system that has a class divide.
I thought of the star wars prequals.
I love how no matter which problem it is with urban traffic, no matter how complicated anyone wants to make it sound, when you boil it down to the essentials the answer always, always, always comes down to the same things -- bikes, buses, trams and trains.
Dont forget less cars
@@janaspengler4169 Ssshh... Don't let the secret out.
@@suspendedtwice4sayingrasis261 tbh, the average [insert mode of transport] is quite useless without dedicated infrastructure, with the exeption of walking and using animals.
@@suspendedtwice4sayingrasis261 Which even counting in said infrastructure, is probably a hell of a lot cheaper, and longer-lasting, than this shit.
@@suspendedtwice4sayingrasis261 So is this. At least with bikes, busses, trams, and trains the transport tech part has already been developed and paid for and all we have to do is build the infrastructure. It's easier and cheaper to repaint a road, run more busses, or reopen pre-existing rail lines than it is to build a network of cable cars and associated stations.
Your ability to take any 'revolutionizing' transit idea and make it better by chaining of pods linked to each other and having dedicated stops along the way while making jokes is unparalleled 😂🤣
Thank you for raising awareness about better public transportation system 🙂
lol u paid 5$ to make this comment stand out? the salt in the youtube comment section is pretty high.
@@gradeyundery4939 no he paid 5$ to Adam as a tangible sign of appreciation. I'm pretty sure he, Adam, will appreciate this small gesture.
If u too have money to donate, be it a small amount, & liked the video, u should also do that.
Never seen a comment like this. Had no idea this was even possible.
@@gradeyundery4939 I love how mad you are about people donating to creators they like. Next you’re going to complain when you find out about charities .-.
@@Adrenaline_chaser what you said should be more like "If you'd enjoy his content and want to support him more than just a like and a follow, go to his patreon/do the same as here", and less like "If you have money and like his vids, donate, even if it's not much". There's a slight difference
You really dropped the ball in failing to call the coffee mug handle a "hyper-loop"
Someone on Twitter asked about their bidirectional throughput per hour to which they responded with "much higher than you might think" to which someone rightfully pointed out that they were so embarrassed by how low it is that they didn't even want to say.
-"Much higher than you might think"
-"Okay, so how many is that, exactly? Go on, impress us."
I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't know what that meant lmao
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And no one responded with,
"Okay, I'm thinking a million souls per hour per direction."?
@@ShroudedWolf51 if a "tech" startup don't have the number on their answer for such question...it's usually kinda red flag
Nature: Everything kept evolving into crabs
Transportation: Everything kept evolving into trains
"Carcinization is presumably a great benefit for the species that go crab. We have yet to figure out the evolutionary benefit of poddification."
@@jdvictor1921 there are actually many benefits of "poddification" as you put it, it's just nobody actually thinks about leveraging them with they come up wtih their new transportation systems ideas because they miss the point.
I'm an autistic person knows a lot about trains, but you can't fool me about me insuffant trains. I never knew that it'd be useful to me anytime.
ferroequinization
Not a train, a tram.
Carcinization is the term for different species independently evolving the body-plan of a crab. There needs to be a similar term for Adam turning these pie-in-the-sky transport projects into trains.
Thanks, now I know why cancer (aka crab constellation) is caused by carcinogens. Never heard the word carcinization but clearly carcin has roots in cancer and crabs.
Or what the idiots are doing. Podstupidification.
Transport consolidation maybe?
Railification?
Trainsition
And in the next episode: revolutionizing nautical transportation - swimming pads floating down the river
Pods. Swimming pods.
I’ve just revolutionised the swimming pod by adding a hyper eco vortex generator. It can now float up the river as well!
Edit: I’ve just revolutionised it again! The swimming pod is now fitted with A.I. enhanced super foils so it can now glide in a state of levitation above the surface of the water!
@@Argumemnon Autonomous pods
The US is becoming so annoying. The right-wing keeps pushing for more "Car-friendly" spaces while making public space inaccesible for people and bikes. And then this... Tech companies reinventing the wheel. How do you even manage to live there guys?
There's a joke here about kayaks
Here in La Paz, Bolivia, we have a cable car system instead of metro because the city is built in mountains. It works very well but it's not individually modular or all of those things that want to re invent the wheel
Searched for a video about it. It’s beautiful, even with Wi-Fi in it! And cheap. That was a good idea.
Edit: were trolley buses not possibly?
@@jannetteberends8730 those trolley buses would then need to go up the serpentines, traveling much larger distances to arrive at the same location. It would be much slower, subject to traffic jams, or exclusively block a lot of valuable space on steep slopes, and generally be much more complicated.
Just check the height of highest and lowest points of La Paz and how far, I mean close, they are apart ...
@@jannetteberends8730Our government doesn't like public transport that much because the public transport lines are more or less privatized
@@brag0001 it was a stupid idea of me. Because they also could have used normal buses. Just to much in the rail problem I suppose.
@@jannetteberends8730 don't worry. If one doesn't know what kind of topography la paz has, it isn't immediately obvious why in this specific city this kind of solution makes so much more sense ...
Holy shit, "Swyft Cities" is the 100% a name that I would expect to see a PARODY of one of these concepts would have
Oh god, AND it said "autonomous pods"!!! AHHHHH
(you could make a bingo card out of this crap)
Or something you’d see in a movie which didn’t get the rights to actually use a real transit company’s name in their film because it was too expensive. 😅
It has only gotten worse over time, companies can't really pick a name that isn't
1. An English word misspelled for no reason
2. A made up word
It's fucking infuriating to keep seeing these squeaky-clean inane monochrome logos with slimy, dark business practices hiding underneath.
It's Taylor Swift's mod for Cities: Skyline
What I truly love is the fact that you emailed the company and got a actually reply back.
So at least they're not a _complete_ scam. Only pretty much a scam, I guess.
@@lonestarr1490 not gonna say it's a scam per se, only they try to solve a problem but with questionable solution
@@lonestarr1490 Not a scam, just techbro brainrot
@@sophiatrocentraisin most of the time it's not the technical side that deserve to blame
In my own experience, it's a "visionary" someone in other area like business or others that has bright idea on the surface and they recruit the one who actually understand, "i want this this this and this".
It went downhill from that point
@@sophiatrocentraisin I'm gonna steal the concept of "Techbro Brainrot" from you. It made me chuckle and it's a joy read or pronounce.
I have to admit, I didn't even think about it till you pointed it out, but the fact that their revolutionary transit video shows a city road with 5 lanes of traffic in, really says a lot about their philosophy on transportation.
5 lanes and fucking terrible traffic too.
And the fact that every vehicle on that road seems to be a car…
Don't bother treating the disease, just treat the symptoms.
Well, you cant argue that they got things right 🤣 Traffic jams and little to no public transport. That's the smell of FREEDOM BABY 🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🏈🏈🏈🏈
they have a tram in the promo vid too :P But instead of doubling down on efficiency they opt for this..
I was skeptical of Normal Coffee Mug Solutions initially, but once you experience the Epic 420 Hyper Handle you start to understand why they're shaking up the coffee mug space.
I move my cup with my mind. I can teach you that with a CGI trailer with cool music.
Not gonna lie, the MvGG logo being written in Comic Sans was a nice cherry on top. Don't think we haven't noticed, Adam
Thank you for offering to come to any city using this. This will surely be the last argument that makes local politicians buy them. Such an increase in tourism just cannot be declined
To handle the increase in tourism, they could build a light rail system for all the spectators.
@@bababababababa6124 Why are you censoring light rail? Is light an offensive word?
@@erkinalp Exactly, we should have censored r**l
@@erkinalp youtube will shadow ban your comment if found spreading the gospel of li**t rail.
@@erkinalp Please don't use such an offensive word here. We here prefer Shiny hyper-pods.
I love how Adam can slowly and convincingly convert anything into a train.
That would be a perfect advertising campaign for a Tram or Tain company.
So why hasn’t he turned the coffe mug into a train?
Checkmate libs 😎
Adam could shame one of those silly Robots from that stupid Transformers franchise into being a train, tram or bus forever!
I was a pod before watching this video
@@theultimatereductionist7592 a train transformer would be a banger movie
Your CGI of the TR4M is so realistic. Glad that blender rendering as gone so far.
The best part of every video is the part where you gradually turn the new "revolutionary" technology into a train or electric bus. Gets me every time. :D
The train cycle has only one step, and it is train.
just like that optomization AI that kept on reinventing trains every time they ran it. Even after they hard coded it to never make trains, it just started making very long bendy busses
because trains are the ultimate -lifeform- form of transport.
@@mrlaz9011 to be fair, they do have limitations. Which is why trams and busses exist (we'll ignore ships on the basis that the trains are the other side of the equation with them). Note the similarities between these and the train: The differences are entirely those that are actually necessary to solve the problems that render a regular train non-viable for the usecase, and they are otherwise very train-like.
@@omegamon0239 source? I'd love to know about this please and thank you.
You have no clue how happy it makes me that some of your go-to stock footage for public transportation is Dutch public transportation. I regularly get upset about everything my government does or doesn't do but this reminds me that they do one thing right: public transportation.
And of course bikes, but that speaks for itself
You've seen Not Just Bikes channel, haven't you?
That is not due to the current government, however. The VVD is one of the most pro-car parties in the Netherlands and they have decreased funding for public transportation. Dutch public transportation is still good, but that is despite the current government, not because of it. Other parties have much more ambitious plans for public transport, biking, urban planning.
I visited the Netherlands and I have to say it changed my life and view on transportation. It's leaps and bounds better than even NYC. NYC is probably the best in the US so that shows how bad it is in America. If there was anywhere I could choose to start my life over it would be the Netherlands.
@@atomic.rabbit I have, great channel
@@duanerackham9567 we really do have our issues but I'm pretty happy I grew up here. I think about how happy I am I was born in Europe and not specifically the US at least once a week
The MvGG seems awesome. I'll invest half my money and blindly defend its creators as if they were my brothers
dude shut up, my dad OWNS MvGG /s
You have a good relationship with your brothers?
In Budapest, if you already mentioned it, in some new buses they revolutionized the stop buttons. Now you don't need to push it, using valuable energy of your fingers, that was totally horrible, it really hurts afterwards every single time. I completely stopped using buses because of these pushing difficulties and finger issues, I even had to see my doctor.
But now my prayers have been answered, the new Butt0n5 are touch sensitive. So sensitive in fact, that if you lean to the Butt0n, with your back, even in winter jackets, even just to the side of the button, then the stop sign is activated. No more tiring fingering action, you can sign with your back, even without you noticing it, and the bus stops in empty stations without anyone wanting it. How convenient, modern, and comfortable is this! And the bus driver can also release some loud swear words after the 3nd pointless stopping; without this invention they had to shut up for the whole trip.
How cool is that! I wish more cities will use this revolutionary modern innovative technology in the near future.
"Buttons are so last century" - some designer
"No wonder I have push-button finger!"
Pretty sure the Citaros they bought back in 2013 already had those buttons.
Please don't give anyone any ideas.
Really?? That's bad. I am hopelessly fighting against "touchy" stuff being put everywhere without a consideration of its real usability vs "normal" buttons. Sometimes I'm thinking if we have right engineers in right places...
I was in Copenhagen yesterday, the amount of people on bikes is so impressive, from all walks of life. People carrying kids to school, supplies to workshops, groceries from shops. It's a big city but it never feels too congested.
Copenhagen impressive? You have to see Amsterdam, we have huge underground parking garages just for bikes. And so many people biking that you can easily get hit by one.
copenhagen isnt a big city
@@shellbmgo1310 well it's a Capital city at the very least
I might have to move to Copenhagen or Denmark
@@guill90 "You have to see Amsterdam, we have huge underground parking garages, just for bikes."
Not Just Bikes
Gondola systems are actually useful, but only in cities with large altitude changes, like those in mountain ranges.
Agreed actually. Then again, Adam pointed out that anything more efficient "breaks" the status quo.
Chucking this very thing in very steep terrain or an express connection from flat terrain to a highly mountainous town alone will break the status quo.
Not only there, there is also argument for them, when there is even a man made obstacle in the way. We have exhibition grounds and some smallish hill in Brno. A gondola system was proposed to link two major transport hubs. One at local teaching hospital, one at the exhibition grounds. The idea was, that the gondolas could go over the exhibition grounds without us having to split it.
They can also be used as an alternative to a ferry. One with higher frequency.
But mountains obviously are where they excel.
It's always great how he turns every gadgetbahn into a train.
I love the word “Gadgetbahn”.
Gadgetbahn is a great word.
Calling this monstrosity a gadgetbahn is an insult to gadgetbahns
G-Bahn
Maan, Gadgetbahn is the best word I heard today
I like how that pod at 1:48 just pops out of existence.
Teleportation! ...now that's revolutionary transportation indeed.
Also the cgi is poorly done.
@@karima1558 that's probably because this startup is a scam and could only afford to get an advertisement company to work on the graphics for one afternoon
I think they are planning building teleports in Neom - The Line. It is the only way how to get anyone from any space to any other in 20 minutes in a 170 km long city. So we may use teleports sooner than expected :-)
@@samuela-aegisdottir If you look at the map of Perth in Western Australia, Perth's metropolitan area extends along the coast to Two Rocks in the north and Singleton to the south, a distance of approximately 125 kilometres. The Transperth transport system has quick electric trains running almost the length of the metro area and is rapidly extending the railway network. At major railway stations there is rapid connection with the bus network and the ticket system allows passengers to transfer at any point between trains, buses and ferries without needing a new ticket. It's not perfect but it gets most passengers to within a couple of hundred metres of their destination.
Saw that, too and thought, 'well, that's one way to do maintenance; just shoot them down!'
The lengths at which some corporations go to reinvent a bicycle is astonishing.
Here is the thing, góndolas can be ACTUALLY an amazing transportation Sistem as long as they are aplied on very specific niches, just look at the Góndolas of Medellín by Metrocable; they are run by the same Metro who runs the buses and the Metro line; and offer a direct route to the Comunas on the mountains; is peak Urban design and i love it.
I think there are a few cities in the US where they would be useful. Pittsburgh and San Francisco come to mind.
Or if some group of nuts build something akin to Scala ad Caelum IRL.
Exactly - they only have a practical application when the route involves travelling over a mountainous area where the incline would be too high for trains or trams and so the only other alternative would be expensive tunneling.
They do have applications. Some ski resorts use gondola lifts for longer distances when chairlifts wouldn't be feasible. But they don't have applications for "revolutionizing urban transit." Even most steep hills are better climbed with a funicular. Only long steep hills that can't be accessed in other ways and have communities at the top that need a connection to the bottom are good candidates for gondola lifts.
These so-called "gondolas" support T-intersections and roundabouts. This actually makes them way more useful than existing góndolas.
@@ayoutubechannelname yes but the question is less "are these better than existing gondolas?" And more "is this better than other options like trams or busses"
I love that my home state of Michigan is the go-to stock footage for “cars bad” because it is 100% accurate
You're patient zero. You spread the infection to the rest of America, America spread it to the rest of the world.
🤣
Not much better for me, I live in Houston 💀
To be fair, that's not a high standard to me, as cars merely existing to me is bad enough due to the auditory overload that they frequently cause me.
Gondolas can work, just in very specific area's, for example in Medellin Colombia, they are used in place of buses that where the roads are too narrow and steep for buses. Also Medellin has an extensive bus and elevated train system, the train system is connected to the gondola line from what I remember.
The other area I’ve seen is river crossings where clearance for ships is an issue and building a bridge tall enough would be cost and space prohibitive
Born Medellin and yes exactly!!! It’s been transportation that’s played a huge role in my country’s history and the gondolas are a point of pride in my city!
Though those are niche cases and more a case of circumstance. They would have build a tram if they could have but they couldn't because of topography. Gondola's are a system you build because you have to, not because you want to.
@@MrMarinus18 There are so man practical problems with just suspending a box on wires high in the air and pulling it around that...yes, you really shouldn't even be resorting to something like that unless ground level is, for some reason or other, not an option. Like the cases brought up in this comment thread, extreme steepness or impracticality of (otherwise much safer and more stable) bridges.
If the ground is viable use it. A bike, car, or tram won't suddenly fall out of the sky and crush you to death if structural failure occurs and aren't a massive pain to tow off to the repair yard.
2:56 I love how you can see the CGI "pod" disappear lmao
Can't complain about your revolutionised transportation system if you bloop out of existence
Revolutionary teleportation technology
Hyper efficient transportation utilizing revolutionary noclip technology.
It's clear there are wormholes in this new high tech transportation technology. It's astonishing how far research in physics has led to this. Couple of weeks back, we saw a proof of concept wormhole in Google's quantum computer that only sent a quantum particle (not even an atom) through a wormhole. Now we are seeing car sized pods being able to use wormholes, truly a fascinating time to be alive /s
Um, where? I'm watching them and the only thing I see is the lighting briefly making one of them match the colour of the sky behind, which makes it look hard to see for a second
Can't believe it's that hard to just build a tram system.
You know that meme about how Americans will measure things using literally anything other than the metric system? Americans will consider any way to get from point A to point B other than the ways we already have.
Trams are too slow to work in USA and too small for China and India
@@qjtvaddict
They do work in cities though. Many cities around the world with comparable density and population have trams and it works fine.
To connect cities you'd need something bigger true, like a train
the important part is "individualised pods". just like cars, they allow different kinds of people to never mix, which is obviously a big problem in the US because their population is a heterogeneous mix in many ways.
planes may seem to be an exception, but they have the different classes system and most people don't fly daily, while they will use cars/public transport daily
@@adh615 Or you can have the best of both with a tram-train. Safe in dense city centres and fast enough to travel intercity
Wuppertal, Germany, has a suspension railway (tramway) which was built in 1900 and been running since then. It comes every 3 to 7 min.
That’s a monorail actually.
It's working for Wuppertal, because of the layout of the city and geography
"Your middle finger, your ring finger, the tricks you can do with this thing" the levels of common sense snark is off the charts and absolutely hilarious. Great video.
i absolutely love the paths adam takes to just get to "the train"
or tram, in this case
@@rokkraljkolesa9317 a tram is a train tbf
If I've learned anything from watching this channel its:
1. Billionare/dictator mega projects are always ill throughout dumb as fuck hunks of wasted material, money, and energy.
2. Every transport problem can be solved with a train, tram, or bus.
From the very moment you started talking about fixing this idea, I knew it was going to end up being a regular tram. I would feel smug about it, but I don't think it was particularly hard to guess.
A train, but worse, part 3… 4… 5…? How many now?
Thank you again for the great video!
those are not trains, those are PODS
@@Warzak77 so basically just trains, but edible
@@Warzak77 So trains but for Ayn Rand fans.
I found an article about "new" cable cars and instantly searched for Adam Someting to say "trains work better". Yes they do, except on water and mountains.
Well, we are a northern european city that's divided by the ocean, a direct route from the western part to the eastern part (at the moment via ship, which is absurdly expensive) takes ten minutes - the bus needs 40. Now we are getting trains, too. But it will need 40 minutes.
Hi from Melbourne. We adopted the TR4M system about 100 years ago and one of their articulated gondolas just passed my front door. I can't wait for the Swyft Cities system to take all my money!
Don't forget that after you've put them along busy corridors that you can also have bicycle parking facilities (like you find everywhere in the Netherlands; Utrecht Centraal has 12,500 underground parking spaces). It increases the amount of people who can easily access by 9-16x, quadratic to the 3-4x speed of cycling.
Just the idea of waiting in line to get in lmao... the line would need to be huge. This creator clearly never used public transport during peak hours. We're talking thousands and thousands of people in 1 spot.
I recently purchased an Epic 420 Hyper Handle (tm) and my morning coffee has never been the same. Thank you for this revolutionary innovation.
The only place I can think cable cars have worked as transportation on metropolitan area is La Paz, Bolivia. And that's mostly because of the extreme geography (compared to mostly flat cities)
In fact, they aren't even comparable. The cable cars in Bolivia work with lines, as most public transports do. But this stupid proposal is just Uber on cables, and they are self propelled, which makes them close to be a 1 car monorail.
Medellin has a whole network of them going back more than a decade
Rio, and presumably other cities in Brazil? For many favelas it is the only option.
@@claudiobizama5603 yup, normal cable cars/gondolas actually have a range of uses, most famously as ski lifts to go up steep inclines.
This "revolutionary transit" is simply a "sky uber" scam.
There's quite a few cities in South America that have really turned the teleferico into a legit mass transit option for cities with very mountainous geography and/or extremely complicated urban layouts (favelas and the like). This DiswuptorPod 2000 or whatever just makes it lower capacity, less efficient (self propelled vehicles) and much more mechanically complicated. It's the gadgetbahn of teleferico systems.
I always love when you break down the issues and then the solutions lead us back to an efficient transit model that already exists. So funny.
Exactly. Revolutionising traffic and transportation is not about inventing shiny, futuristic bs projects, but utilising the effective methods we already have in hand. It's basically a political question against the current hegemony of our four-wheeled masters...
@@garrettgsf8849 That's basically it. We already have the tech to fix so many problems, but the political will just isn't there.
I just got my license and became a 4-wheeled master
@@olgagaming5544 Wait, McQueen?
That already exists in Europe you should say. And that's the problem, Americans will never do anything that resembles borrowing ideas from "the outside" they are the most closed minded and supremacist people on the planet.
You always know it's coming, but seeing Adam reinvent the train by improving on stupid ideas never gets old.
You keep coming up with these revolutional improvement! You're really taking these tech genius designs to the next level!
Actually, I do see a good concept in their render image. Do you see those tubes on rails to the right in the image, under the sheds?
That looks amazing, we should build more of those. Wow, these guys are so smart!
You mean those red giga pod chains? Yeah, they will be great.
You're onto something, Glenni. I want a full proposal on my desk by March. You can do it!
(God, I wish I could take a train to go home...)
I see them. They are right next to that building with all the buses, no sorry I mean wheeled mega pods, parked outside.
@@smb4903 Wheeled trackless megapods! Another truly revolutionary invention
To someone who thinks this video is against innovation It's not. It's not against innovation, it's against reinventing the wheel, and a shittier wheel at that
The urban cable car is actually useful, but in certain areas only, like urban areas with a lot of mountains
This system is a bit widespread in Mexico City, but even the government admitted that it is of low capacity and is only functional for a few people.
A cable car is basically just an alternative for a bridge. So any proposal suggesting cable cars on level ground is the height of redundant department of redundancy.
On the ground we have funicular systems.
That's the point of the system. It will be so expensive that THOSE PEOPLE will not be able to use it and the right people can travel unhindered.
Of its low capacity its built wrong. 10p hondolas or even 3s massive ones from doppelmayr for example can carry thousands of people every hour, hence their use on skifoeld where every oeson will use them half the time they are there
Tbf my city would actually benefit from ski lifts to travel up the hills but that's because some of the hills are at 80° angles
Never thought I'd see Murcia (Spain) in this channel but there we go (That's the Murcia tram, "TdM" for Tranvia de Murcia, at the end of the video). Spanish public infrastructure getting some much deserved love!
I know that's not what this video is about, but at 4:28 the way that things whole entire leg just shwoops up to avoid the car (while the rest of it keeps going as if nothing happened) just made me burst out laughing
Literally some looney tunes shit
And it happens "at speed".
As if. Apparently, they've never seen a fire truck with a ladder or a boom truck with a bucket.
I find it amusing that they have the slick CGI render but so little attention to detail that the pods going to the left pop out of existence before they're out of frame
I knew from the first minute that you were going to turn it into a tram system, but it was still fun watching you do it!
I expected a metro system and was disapointed.
1) I'm somewhat disturbed by the pods heading off-screen to the left simply vanishing into another dimension.
2) pods coming ftom the left seem to have no choice but to turn right after crossing the road.
This animation delightfully glosses over how pods change route from one suspension cable to another.
What's super interesting is that I could see a possible usage of this idea (at least a gondola system) in mountainous places, too steep and too built up to provide a transit system... but then in those situations people built gondolas 🤣
You just invented Switzerland which has one of the best train systems in the world, and also has cable cars on some mountains.
I know some cities with challenging topography have used conventional cable ways in the past and present. They are useful for places that have terrain unsuited for rail or road based infrastructure, plus the tech is over a century old and is well understood. Armies in the first world war even used them supply troops fighting in the alps on both sides, so we know they work for both passengers and cargo.
I'm curious to know your take on conventional cable ways.
It just sucks that idiots see cableways as a transportation/traffic "solution" and pushing it on cities _with flat terrain,_ overestimating its usefulness and misappropriating/improperly implementing it.
@@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk yeah, they are meant for steep terrain and large gaps
I assume they're a bit more dangerous and a pain to do repairs on. So, making the best of a challenging problem.
@@user-op8fg3ny3j or rivers. Basically any obstacles. Even built up areas. And cheap. Fast to build. Gondolas are great if used correctly.
@@regulate.artificer_g23.mdctlsk The system demo on their website clearly demonstrates straightforward switching ability using a short section of suspension railway to change between different fixed cables. This enables not only off-line stations, but also spur connections.
Watching you re-invent trains by just optimising their literal pie-in-the-sky ideas is so entertaining
I was in La Paz Bolivia a little while ago and they have a fantastic traditional Gondola system that can take you all over the city. Works really well for the significant height changes that they have to deal with. They also seems to work great on the flat areas above the valley but maybe a good ol train would have been even better in those cases.
Since they need the gondola system for the height changes, at some point it's just easier to run it over the flat areas as well rather than introduce another mode of transport (train). But my knowledge of Bolivia is nil.
@@3rdalbum train can get between 10 to 20 years to be made in South America bc the andean mountains are kinda tough and corruption is rampant.
Was looking for this comment! The La Paz gondolas are indeed fantastic, part of the issue was also the really unstable soil I believe. It also works really well because people you know, *share* the gondola. Really cool and unique transit system
Bogota also has a gondola transit system, but they call them "teleféricos" there
I love how lots of inefficient "revolutionary" transit systems can be added to with improvements to just make a train. It just shows how people see what they want to see, think things will work, but then don't actually think them out, and compare the system to current public transit.
A version of these pods once did revolutionize the transportation of skiers and snowboarders from the valleys to the mountains.
"Black hole of intelligence" is a really good way to describe many things: not just techbros.
Thanks for the solid content as always
In vienna we have city-bikes, a (basically) free bike you can lend from a fully automatic station and return it to another, abundant in the areas with many bikelanes (mostly inner districts). Not really that damn hard to conceive or use. Costs 0,6€ for half an hour, or half that amount if you own an annual public transport ticket for vienna. Easy to implement and do, cheap, and the stations are all on the sidewalk or pedestrian areas, so it doesn't even "cost" precious street space...
We used to have those docked bikes in Melbourne, Australia, but it was eventually discontinued. The first ride costs $2 for half an hour, then increased by $1 in half hour blocks. If your second & subsequent rides were less than half an hour, those rides were free. So you could basically use those bikes for short trips for just $2 plus a refundable deposit.
Now we have dockless bicycles & scooters by Neutron, Uber, & Lime. But these are pretty expensive...
@@jonathantan2469 Yeah, weird. In Vienna we have all those services too, but they are 100% private, while the city itself provides the bikes as an alternative for everyone. In fact, they just invested 2,3 million euros more for that. And don't even get me started at these bullshit scooters. They are everywhere and all those mentally challenged bozos drop them across every sidewalk once done. This goes so far, that the city is honestly thinking about forbidding them entirely.
@@jinxhead4182 The docked bicycles were council-owned too. But they failed due to a whole bunch of factors, even though we had decent bike lanes & bike paths around the city. Firstly, many of these were centered around tourist spots in the city centre, besides the city centre's train stations and some public spaces with lots of foot traffic. Secondly, our transit payment system is time based, rather than distance based. So if you arrive in the city centre by train, bus, or tram & still have time left on your token (card or mobile based), you would prefer to take another tram or bus for the last mile instead of paying a deposit & fee to cycle. Later we made most of the city centre a free zone for trams, making the bikes moot as a last mile method.
@@jonathantan2469 Ah, yes, seems like bad planning. It's not perfect around here, but at least somewhat more usable.
Take something flexible like cycling and oblige people to travel only to specific locations (where the parking may be full). Require registration and deposits, making the system less friendly for children and people from out of town. Make it less safe because tourists don’t have a cycle helmet, and make it require power and data to release a bike. You’ve taken a 19th century piece of tech, added some 21st century magic and made it far less useful. Sorry... but I think ‘smart’ cycling still has a lot of bugs that need to be ironed out.
So cool to see my city (Murcia, Spain) in your channel as a good example of something.
Great video again, keep up the good work!
Unlike most Tech bro gadgetbons I can see a few niche applications such as in theme parks, retirement communities, university campuses, and other small concentrated areas but revolutionizing city wide transit no.
Funnily enough, regular gondalas are used in precisely those situations in a number of places already. At least when the elevation changes are such that alternatives aren't significantly better.
Actually, a few cities with Particularly steep and hilly geography Do use them as part of the public transportation network (though they still use more conventional systems where suitable).
@@laurencefraser The difference with this is that unlike gondolas, this system supports T-intersections. So you can build a grid of these which each vehicle can navigate through independently, point-to-point, non-stop.
Those are small enough that simply walking gets the job done just as well but much more cheaply.
One thing that just confuses me about the 'individualized transport' is. Like. You are suspended above the street. You need stations or Batman's grapple hook, so it would just be a private train anyway.
At this point just build them water slides. Vehicleless private rapid hydro transportation!
As someone who takes the train every day to work in Los Angeles, i really wish public transit was more wide spread and readily available. I usually arrive faster than i wouldve otherwise driving, save a ton of money on gas and parking, and generally have a really consistent schedule that isnt dependent on how heavy traffic is. Love it
If I took the train everyday instead of driving it would take me 2.5 hours to get to my job instead of 40 minutes in a car, assuming I don't miss a train and then I am at the mercy of the train's schedule and no longer have the freedom to make my own schedule. That is a pretty huge difference.
@@GeorgeMonetin many traffic clogged cities you would be at the mercy of traffic jams and accidents in your car anyway. Plus, since time is money much of that extra two hours would be spent paying for the car.
Depending on your employer, you could also get a tax deduction equal to the commute cost. 😉
@@GeorgeMonet where do you live?
I grew up in LA. More trains would be great. BUt then i wonder. If you hade a tain that like goes down the 101. How do you get to your house that is smack dab in the middle of the valley? Its so spread out it starts to seem like it would take forever to get home depending on where you live in the grid
Here in LA they keep trying to make our giant sweeping boulevards into bike friendly streets, which is insane waste of space, instead of idk just going back to streetcars and trams which the city grid was DESIGNED FOR. Truly a tragedy that such a high number of people don't realize how awesome trains are.
It's crazy how many cities used to have streetcar/tram/trolleybus systems, which were ripped out after WW2 as the "car is king" mentality took hold.
@@Gerishnakov That was also motivated by racism since white people didn't want to ride in the same public transportation as Black people. Black people subsequently bought as many cars as possible to avoid segregation in public transport.
wtf is wrong with bikes
bikes arent the problem tho. bike lanes and trams work co-exist in every other country lol
@@galactic2728 EXACTLY. The reason so many Americans would rather be stuck in car traffic for hours and consider that more acceptable than travelling on a bus, subway, or streetcar/tram is that they would rather be surrounded by a dangerous metal cage than sit next to other people, ESPECIALLY people who look differently from them.
Adam is a humanity's treasure, period.
I just love to see how one guy that is GENUINELY interested in these topics fixes all of the problems by himself, to show that not always you need a thousand people team to do something.
Love your channel man, please keep going, it's ridiculous how many resources these people waste to naver come up with anything decent.
I remember riding something like this at an Amusement park. It took you across the whole park at a leisurely pace to see everything. So we are just turning cities into amusement parks now?
Major city centres in Europe are pretty much amusement parks already.
I mean, yes, actually. Large amusement parks often have to use transit systems similar to that of a city as they seldom have guests drive from one location to another.
Now, of course these parks are designed around pedestrian use and can more effectively plan to have these systems match demand perfectly. Additionally, the infrastructure maintenance doesn’t need to be cheap but yes design cities like amusement parks is very close to the idea.
6:05 So nice to suddenly see the beautiful city of Murcia. A big expansion of the tram is going to be done here this year.
There are a few specific use cases where gondolas make sense, normally where there’s some geographic obstacle like a steep hill, canyon, river, etc. that you want to cross. But you’re right, in a typical city they just don’t make sense.
And thumbs up for cat! 👍😺
and for those specific use cases, the gondola system already exists :) for everything else, there's monorail. I mean, train.
Having transportation above streets is not always a bad idea. But individual pods are always ineffective - an expensive way how to transport very few people. On the other hand, in the context of public transport, cable cars or above ground trams and trains make perfect sense in some cities. They are not anything revolutionary though.
Notice how the graphic shows cars traveling at impossibly slow speeds to distract from the fact that their system is slow as fuck?
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Gondola cars are good solutions for cities with neighborhoods on steeply sloping terrain, like Medellin or La Paz in South America.
I think we should just write HYPERPOD on all trains and everyone will start using them
That tr4m pod system looks so sleek and futuristic.
Wrongly Spelled Swift already made one of the biggest mistakes in economical design at the very beginning: *Never build suspended unless necessary.* There's a reason why Wuppertal has one of the only public suspended monorail systems in the world. Its unique geography requires this niche use because there is no space for more normal rail infrastructure.
i love these videos so much
watching adam shitting on these ideas and making them into either a bus or a train or whatever is just the funniest shit ever, even if it's been done and redone over like 500 videos. keep it up, adam, we need more of this - it's hilarious
I don't trust heavy suspended staff, I don't even trust balconies and skyscrapers, I always think they're gonna fall
I agree wholeheartedly, but only exception is Schwebebahn!
@@zljmbo Which is built like an absolute tank with all the redundancy you'd expect of the Germans. This looks like it's held up by popsicle sticks and a prayer.
Commie block balconies are indestructible.
Hungarian panelház were built to last 30-40 years but they last forever. If maintained properly. Without earthquakes here, they will outlast every other housing in the country.
@@tjenadonn6158 funnily enough the schwebebahn did have one major incident back like 20 years ago, but less than 10 died and around 50 got only injured despite the whole thing literally crashing down.
Plus it was because of human error, not the infrastructure itself. There had been a crane still attached to the rail which had recently been renovated and the train hit it.
No matter how many times I watch Adam reinvent Trains, Trams, Subways, Metros, Busses etc., it never get's old
Edit: I realize I must be the 254th person to say this but that just proves it as fact
Gondolas are great for ski mountains, except that they always reek of weed. Now imagine having to ride in a box that stinks of pot or cigarettes every time you want to go somewhere outside of walking distance.
That's kinda a moot point, I don't see how that isn't also a problem on other modes of transit
You're missing out on the actual revolution Swyft is proposing. If you watch the pods go towards the left side of the screen, you'll see that they get de-spawned once they get close, thereby killing everyone inside, eliminating waste!
Lmao reminded me of that one Onion episode on cars that kill their owner to get eco friendly results.
Apart from being less efficient than a tram or bus, what exactly is the difference to a conventional aerial ropeway?
- Single pods driving on a cable: literally every aerial ropeway (ok, pulled by the cable, but individual motors are less efficient anyway)
- Stopovers: can be found in every other skiing area
- Decoupling from the cable at stations: most aerial ropeways with small cabins, and it should be comparably simple to allow others to pass by
- Switches: exist, but not useable at high speeds, as far as I've seen
So the only new thing here is the stopping on demand and the switches. Great.
To be fair though, I can see aerial ropeways as a solution for some niche applications where it would be difficult or expensive to built a train track. For example, there is a new aerial ropeway in Toulouse, which connects some of the outskirts tangentially. I haven't had a chance to visit the city since it was opened, but I would love to hear your opinion about it!
I would say their are places where cable gondola lift can make sense for everyday transportation, but also there you don’t have to reinvent the wheel.
I sort of entertained this because in very very rare cases gondolas can be a transport solution such as in Medellin. Then as soon as I heard 'self-contained autonomous pod' I checked out
Also in cities like Vegas, where people are often going building-to-building quite often, but there also is a heavy flow of traffic on the roads that makes it difficult to cross.
Yes, you can argue that the entire Strip should be one massive train line, but in the meantime, this is a fairly sensible solution. Get in a pod, tell it you want to go to a building five blocks down and across the street, and you are there right away. Plus a lot of buildings already have elevated entrances or balconies that could easily be refitted into platforms.
@@nibs7252 I've not been to Vegas so can't comment - but if a city is that car dependant it needs a weird pseudo-monorail cum Uber system just to cross a street that's pretty depressing
Was recently in Vietnam and there is some massive company that builds garish gondolas all over the country. Cat Ba Island had to fight hard to limit the route, monster pylons.
The coffee mug joke at the start didn't quite land with me since I was literally drinking coffee out of an Ember mug while watching it. If you don't know, the Ember mug is a smart, bluetooth-enable mug with a battery and small heater inside that maintains your beverage at exactly the temperature you set it to. It's ridiculous, over-designed, completely unnecessary...and I love it.
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@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Yes and it's amazing
@@kevadu ... But why is it bluetooth???
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 There's an app on your phone you use to set the temperature you want. Honestly, once you've set it you don't really need to use it.
@@kevadu I uh. I think Im good with thermos flasks
Have you looked into Jacque Fresco and his visions for transportation (and resource based economy)? Way ahead of his time. Even at 101yo, still died too young.
I seem to never get tired of you improving a dumb idea until it is just a train. In fact, I have come to expect it for nearly every video of yours!
Haha! This is exactly what my skiing obsessed twelve year old brain dreamed up, that had no idea about urban planning or transit. XD
That's another good telltale sign of a tech grift.
If your 12-year old brain can imagine it, you can bet that at least one reputable engineer already did. And if they didn't get excited enough about it to try it, you can bet that there's a whole bunch of problems with the idea.
Did your twelve-year old brain figure out how to make a T-intersection with it? I ask because it turns out that this system supports T-intersections which means therefore that it can support roundabouts, spurs, collectors, arterials, and offline stations. It's also quite easy to see how it can mix public passenger, private passenger, and cargo trips. Try that with a ski gondola. You can't.
@@ayoutubechannelname Gondola systems have been able to take cabins off the cable for the night since forever, so diverting vehicles at low speeds IS possible. So yeah, you CAN in fact do all of the things you mention with a bog standard ski gondola system. The gondolas just have to be slow, which their demonstrator system happens to be as well. As long as they don't claim that they can already pipe gondolas though the intersection points at highway speeds, there's nothing new here as far as I'm concerned.
@@Pystro Another important thing from what I can tell is that their cable doesn't move. This vastly simplifies the process of expanding the network as each additional spur doesn't require setting up a bullwheel at the end.
@@ayoutubechannelname the cable not moving is a disadvantage as it will get run down by friction and have to be replaced very often
Love your vids man, super informative and witty. Keep it up bro 👌
Oh Adam. My sweet super child. If you payed attention you would see a cart disappear at 2:12 on the left edge of the screen indicating that this is not a cable car but a teleportation device. This is revolutionary, indeed!
Great quality content, Adam, gotta love it!