Do you mean the stolen card, or do you mean like how ATM vestibules open for any card with a magstripe, no matter what it is or if it's expired, because that was the cheapest kind of lock? NYC subway has SUBWAY COPS. ON THE TRAINS. Have you ever been to NYC?
They stole the card, got the pin and the person hasn't reported it stolen yet? Probably rare. The proposals I've seen generally take a fare card. Some might interface with a credit card. One of the nicer proposals that way is that because you're ID'd, your frequent destinations can come up on a short list. Oh, and the subway cops can't be everywhere.
Ooh, more video cameras and more people to monitor the cameras. Ca-ching, ca-ching, keep addding up the $$$$$$. Not to mention that a camera in the pod can be taken care of by a guy in a hoodie in sunglasses holding up a small spraypaint can. Do you really not understand how taggers and punks think?
Cameras are cheap, and they won't be in the pod, they'll be in the stations. A pod outside a station will be traveling, most likely on an elevated rail. Not what I'd call an easy target. Worst case, yes, security guards/cops could be hired to patrol the stations on a random basis.
Small tracks in a bad area, keep throwing bent drycleaning hangers and metal debris up on the track till you hear a bang, run away laughing and yelling. Or just toss bricks up there till the cars jam on things that wouldn't stop a full-sized train. You really haven't been to any inner cities, have you.
Small tracks with covered rails, they can toss and laugh all day or until their arm gets tired. The same design that keeps water, snow, and ice from accumulating will let the brick fall down too. Dry Cleaning hangers? Given the amperage the track's likely to operate at, it probably won't survive contact long enough to throw the breakers.
Here's where you fail completely. Such a system requires that the whole network be up to handle the switches that stop it from just being a traffic jam. Plus, if there's a jam or other malfunction, there goes the firefighters to get the people out, scare, ridership goes down, costs go up, more ca-ching, ca-ching, $$$$$$$.
Here's where you've invested no thought. Each car is capable of independent action - the car itself worries about not hitting the one in front of it. It also knows how to get off at the next station if it loses signaling, just the same as if it loses power.
An airport is a controlled environment. Does not apply to the real world outside it. BTW, Vegas' monorail was a total failure. Nobody used it! They're pushing to make the company take the tracks down before they declare bankruptcy and are forced to leave them in place as abandoned eyesore ruins.
It's outside the wire, to remote parking lots for the trial install. They also have plans to run it out to local services such as hotels.
Read about Raytheon bailing the hell out of a project as the costs ballooned, then get back to me. Morgantown. Ha!
You're right. We need to stop using Airplanes because they sucked so much in the beginning. Oh wait, we kept using them and developed the technology to the point we can use them to transport tanks and such.
Morgantown was an experiment. I'm talking about learning from the mistakes made there, adjusting with new technologies and use the resources we have today that we didn't in 1975 - cheap and ample computing power, sophisticated yet inexpensive computers, etc...
Your tracks are impossible. Did you entirely miss what I said about ALL tracks now requiring escape walkways along the entire length of the track run, as well as falling-object shields and drip pans, plus handicapped access? That is the LAW. You cannot get around that. There will be catwalks allowing a single file line of people on either side. That is how it is.
Actually, I did miss that part. Sorry. Still, you're talking about LAW - California law at that. And the department responsible has the option of waiving those requirements. So it could be installed in Florida without having to meet California requirements. The federal part - handicapped access is already addressed. Ramps or even elevators in the station, fold up a seat for a wheelchair. Failing that, yes shields and pans could be put in, and yes, it would increase the costs. They would also be able to be lighter than such systems for heavier transport systems.
You just don't understand the reality, or the costs. It's why it's nothing but a failed concept.
undeveloped concept, not failed.
You keep assuming active sabotage and crazy rules that won't be modified if push comes to shove.
