Entrepreneur Wants To Change The Way You Go To Class By Bringing Personal Rapid Transport To UT
“What starts here changes the world.” That’s the University of Texas slogan. It seems like they are about to do just that. The campus may be in for a futuristic type change with how students get to class. See, Austin is one big traffic jam. It is, by far, the worst thing to ever happen to this city. It shouldn’t take me two hours to go 15 miles through downtown. But good news is on the way for the students and faculty on campus.
One Austin tech entrepreneur, Richard Garriott, wants to bring personal rapid transport to the Forty Acres.
From The Austin Statesman:
The particular stuff Garriott has in mind is a 7.2-mile web of elevated tramways, running alongside city streets from West Campus, in and around the University of Texas, and then on to the university facilities just east of Interstate 35. Running on those paths would be battery-powered, self-driving podcars with room for up to six people, each vehicle directed by those passengers to a particular destination on the circuit.
Got class a mile away and it starts in ten minutes? No worries about having to navigate through traffic on a bus when you and five of your close classmates can hop in a pod and get there in no time. I gotta say this idea is kind of cool.
UT currently has 14,000 parking spots on campus, but can have up to nearly 80K people there. For all those math impaired out there. That’s what you call a problem. Currently, they are in preliminary discussions on the plan, but could move closer to bringing it to campus soon.
I don’t see how this thing could become a bust. Unless, of course, no UT student has pod sex in it on their way to class. Then it would be a failure..
[via The Austin Statesman]
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They should name it Porta-Poddy.
10 years ago at 1:17 pmGet the fuck out.
10 years ago at 1:26 pmHa ha pretty good for a Saturday.
10 years ago at 1:39 pmSon of a bitch. I know I shouldn’t have laughed about that, but dammit, that was clever.
10 years ago at 5:40 pmWe already have this at WVU, and it breaks down constantly. Other than that it works well
10 years ago at 1:44 pmJust put the pods up on cinder blocks in your front yard with that 84 Pontiac your brother-in-law is workin’ on.
10 years ago at 1:54 pmLots of times I just ride my cousin to class. She only breaks down every time she gets pregnant.
10 years ago at 7:52 pmWhat happens if I don’t have five friends? Do I have to share it with 5 scumbags from Austin?
10 years ago at 2:31 pmWeirdo’s
10 years ago at 9:28 amEveryone knows the longboard to class is the way to go. And if one of your wheels messes up, you can plenty of spares and tools in your cargo shorts.
10 years ago at 3:43 pmShut the fuck up, scumbag.
10 years ago at 4:36 pmtaking your anger out at me won’t raise that 2.8 gpa
10 years ago at 5:05 pmId love a 2.8 gpa
10 years ago at 6:12 pmShut up.
10 years ago at 6:20 pmMr. Geed, you may have my favorite troll account. I always read the comments from the bottom up so I can see what absurdities your opinion will bring on the given subject. Well done.
10 years ago at 9:57 pmRad Fem was once my favorite but I heard she bled to death because she refused to wear an “oppressive” tampon.
10 years ago at 9:58 pmsteve holt wouldnt get pod sex
10 years ago at 6:17 pmSteve Holt would be the first crackhead to dry-jerk it vigorously with an unwavering stare through the soul of the only other 4am passenger.
10 years ago at 7:12 pmWvu has had a personal rapid transit for decades
10 years ago at 1:23 pm