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Hallitubes - Like Taking a Rollercoaster to Work

by Steve
Friday, July 22, 2005

HallitubesHallitubes are the concept of a San Diego-based attorney named Greg Maizlish, designed to alleviate traffic on congested roadways. It's basically a network of elevated tubes that would parallel existing roadways, and even branch off into their own areas.

The tubes are very small, just big enough to carry a car holding one, maybe two people, and a track. Riders lie down in the car, with the head and neck elevated. The cars are powered by electricity, which they get from the track, and can reach speeds up to 120mph.

One of the barriers to making Hallitubes work, is that each rider must pass a training course to know how to switch themselves on to other tracks, operate the cars, and how to take emergency actions.

Maizlish is currently trying to get a voter initiative going in California to implement the Hallitubes.

4 Comments:

  • Looked at their website - the current plan will have switches only at the end of the ride, to distribute carts from one tube into three different ones, and they operate every few seconds, so the user is not picking them by themselves. MIght work. Check out the strange stuff though on moving peole w.o. carts in tubes, like in futurama

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7/25/2005 10:47:00 AM  


  • The carts take only one person, that way the tubes are thin enough to fit even under old narrow overpasses in the LA area. Tight riding, probably not comfortable.

    By Anonymous eric, at 7/25/2005 09:43:00 PM  


  • You have about 6 inches on the side of each arm, riding would not be that tight. Remember, you are not required to steer, on the main track you read a paper while driving.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5/27/2006 11:53:00 AM  


  • Anyone who has ever seen "Logan's Run"...or countless other sci-fi movies realizes that this is a movie-to-reality (science faction) ripoff

    By Blogger vincent vega, at 6/02/2008 08:35:00 AM  


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