the Future of Transportation is here! Meet Shweeb

[JUL3]

I dunno why this is getting flamed so quickly. I mean it has some obvious flaws, but it'll be a cool addition to today's transport all the same.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Yeah but, it's not like it's just a new type of bike or something, this is something that requires considerable infrastructure to work. Good luck convincing the council to put tracks up everywhere just because it's "cool."

 

[Mogi67]

This man did not read even a single reply to this thread.

Or use his brain.

Vegeta, what are you talking about? I've posted three times in this thread. Granted, I was stoned the last time, but why do you hate shweeb so?

 

[Remus]

but why do you hate shweeb so?

I don't know about him, but I personally think it's a stupid idea. The shweeb requires infrastructure to work, and because of the rail it limits where you can go with it. Bikes are already here, they don't require any infrastructure, and you can go wherever the hell you want with it. So what's the point of the shweeb?

 

[CptStern]

the point is that Google has billions of dollars with which to buy up whacky schemes in the hope some will return on the investment


no one thinks this is really feasible in anything but a limited market

 

[Stigmata]

This is completely feasible in a static high-traffic environment, like maybe a city, or more likely a university campus. I don't think it's being aimed at replacing the trans-canada highway or anything

 

[CptStern]

that straight as the crow flies ride across the prairies would be murder on the thighs

 

[Stigmata]

As long as you get a good running start off the Rockies, and have enough body mass to push all the people in front who gave up pedalling, you should be fine.

 

[CptStern]

you'd need a giant Q-tip to push them ahead of you

 

[Vegeta897]

Vegeta, what are you talking about?

Well,

How will the fatties fit?

Or on a more serious note, how could this be used in anything but flat terrain?

Looks like shit. Or should I say, shwit.

It might be okay for very short distances, but how is this the future of transportation? Seems like they just added pedals to a roller coaster that has no hills.

This is just about the most impractical thing I've ever seen.

Seems like it would require almost equivalent energy to just jog, and that has the added bonus of being able to move in all directions.

This should be solar powered or something. Get out of here.

Pedal faster, I'm late for work.

It'd be practical if it were like a train, except it'd be a monorail. And those exist. So this is a Monobikerail really.

isn't a bicycle about equally efficient and billions of dollars less costly (the tracks). I don't really understand the point of this. This is like, ****ing retarded.

So a bicycle enclosed in glass, on rails?

/unimpressed

I was hoping it was some kind of futurama style transport tube.

I agree. WTF is going on here?

What? This would never work as a serious means of urban transportation. Even if it does become implemented in some areas, I cannot see it being used very often.

1. what happens when someone isn't pedaling fast enough and someone else needs to use the capsule?

2. As if Public Transportation wasn't disgusting enough, now I get to ride to work in a compact container filled with the last 5 dudes' Body Odor and sweat. It would be a goddamn disease container during the flu season.

3. What happens when your chain breaks and you sit their lookin' like a goddamn asshole, hanging 200 feet above traffic, and are late to work?
Boss: "Why are you 2 hours late to work?"
You: "lol I was tryin to be environmental and fit so I took da Shweeb"
Boss: " XD "

Shweeb through forests? Yeah, that's what I want when I go to a nature preserves, ****ing Shweeb rails and Shweebers all up in my bears and hawks and shit-

Probably not a design concern for a pedal-powered vehicle.

This idea is more April than April Fools.

So uhh... can you even see where you're going? Seems like it'd be pretty easy for people to chuck things in your path.

Hang on let me text you back later, I have some dweeb in his schweeb jacking off in front of me and holding up the entire line.

Exactly. This whole idea is shit and solves nothing.

At least on a bike you have the wind to cool you and trees to shade you. That shit is like exercising in a glass jar in the sun.

The potential for gridlock is almost worse than any other form of transportation. One person at a time, no manueverability or alternate routes... nothing.

There's not even a grid!

The best part about this would be when people get sick of pedaling, and just get out halfway down the track. Everyone behind them would have to push that container the rest of the way in addition to their own.

This is really just a brilliant system, very well thought out.

I imagine this will be the first and last time I hear of the shweeb. Long live the segway.

But yeah, this is a stupid idea. Get a bike!

I really wanted to like this, until I saw what it was like.

I have no idea how you can say there will be Schweeb pipelines to everyone's house. There are so many flaws with this thing, it's going nowhere.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Meh, I'm sure cavemen felt the same way about walking.

"With my legs? Pfft. **** that noise."

 

[Mogi67]

I have no idea how you can say there will be Schweeb pipelines to everyone's house. There are so many flaws with this thing, it's going nowhere.

Shweeb*

 

[VirusType2]

You know what would be more 'cool'? Run a cable from the top of a mountain to a low point, slide down in a chair with a wheel pulley system suspended from the cable.

It's only one way, but requires zero extra energy. I would totally ride that to school, and take the bus home.

 

[Yuri]

Hey guys check out this thing that could be kind of fun, ya know, just for goofing arou-


NO THIS IS HL2.NET THAT IS NOT PRACTICAL YOU ARE A ****ING FAILURE GET THE **** OUT GET OUT GET THE ****ING **** OUT EVERYTHING SUCKS

 

[JUL3]

Hey guys check out this thing that could be kind of fun, ya know, just for goofing arou-


NO THIS IS HL2.NET THAT IS NOT PRACTICAL YOU ARE A ****ING FAILURE GET THE **** OUT GET OUT GET THE ****ING **** OUT EVERYTHING SUCKS

 

[jondy]

Hey guys check out this thing that could be kind of fun, ya know, just for goofing arou-

It's not really for goofing around, though, IS IT ERESTHEUX, IT REQUIRES LIKE TRACKS AND AN INFRASTRUCTURE AND BALLS LIKE THAT

 

[Remus]

NO THIS IS HL2.NET THAT IS NOT PRACTICAL YOU ARE A ****ING FAILURE GET THE **** OUT GET OUT GET THE ****ING **** OUT EVERYTHING SUCKS

Well it really does suck. :|

 

[unozero]

why just ride a real bike?

 

[DEATHMASTER]

Why do that when you could build a shitload of crap and accomplish the same thing?

 

[thefiznut]

lol, their website answers a lot of your complaints, as i mentioned earlier...
their idea is rock solid actually, especially in the content of public transit.

the shweeb pod is far easier to pedal foward than walking, first of all..
takes 100W to get a 70kg man to go 5Km/hour walking on flat ground, shweeb pods go 20Km/hour with only 33W of power.. that's very efficient and much, much easier than walking..
slow pods combine with faster pods to form one mass that is extremely easy to push along even if people aren't pedaling.
the pods acheive efficiency through careful attention to aerodynamics. the shape has very little drag at all, and even less drag when two pods combine as one.
hills have chains to assist pods in the ascent.
collisions can't occur or hurt anyone because of 600mm buffers in the front and rear or pods..


so i fail to see how it's a bad idea.. all of these features are present in their real-life prototype. they already have all the technology available to make their system work. shweeb rails are cheap and pods are cheap, much cheaper than bus systems, railway, and subway systems..

 

[thefiznut]

why just ride a real bike?

because they are not as efficient. it takes a LOT more power to push someone on a bike along than a shweeb..

their website has answers to all of these common questions but noone is reading it.

 

[McGooTheWise]

Dunno why noon would read it. I guess noon will know.

I want to ride my bike now. Screw you guys. Making me want to exercise. ****ers.

 

[Wanted Bob]

lol, their website answers a lot of your complaints, as i mentioned earlier...

My question still stands:

How will the fatties fit?



EDIT: They do say people who can fit in an airplane, train, or bus seat can ride it. There are still people who cant even fit in those, but I suppose that would be nitpicky to complain about that

 

[jondy]

because they are not as efficient. it takes a LOT more power to push someone on a bike along than a shweeb.

How much more power?