Difference between revisions of "Talk:Automated transport systems"

Revision as of 03:42, 24 April 2010

Most people would think twice about flying on airliners knowing that 2885 jumbos crash each year killing all <<there is no way this is true. The number is between zero and one. (severe injuries: 36,000 jumbos crash landing) — this is reality of road transport. Likelihood of being killed on the road is something like 1 in 200 (need to find ref).

• Trains
  • Light rail
  • Personal rapid transit
  • Maglev
    • Vacuum maglev system (DONE)
      • Gravity vacuum maglev (almost no energy required)
• Driverless road vehicles
• Electric vehicles
• Aircraft
  • Personal aircraft
  • Sub-orbital passenger craft
  • Autonomous helicopters already exist [1]
  • Spacecraft etc.
• Airships (DONE)
• Ships.
  • Unmanned freighters. There exists a ship big enough to carry ten thousand cars that runs on a combo of wave, wind and solar energy [2]. This cost $110 million to build; but what are the fuel costs of an ordinary ship? Shipping can be made more efficient by very light, very strong materials. Catamarans are more hydrodynamic. As for automation, there are plenty of small unmanned military boats (USVs in military-speak).

• Free flight

Financial cost of road traffic accidents estimated at over $120 billion in the US and over $193 billion in the Europe Union. (Found in slideshow from Delphi Automotive Integrated Safety Systems - need to find source).

Non-automated, but desirable vehicles for another section:

• Electric / fuel cell
• Human powered

http://www.aerospace-technology.com/projects/skycat/