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Don't use maintenance-intensive transportation in southern Europe.
AI can't do funiculars
50 seconds of terror.
Why do they not have emergency brake?
>>2053210This video will answer any question you have: https://youtu.be/XW0W7j04iRQ?si=rBe2OI3ATpxUyPk_
TILThe term funicular derives from the Latin word funiculus, the diminutive of funis, meaning 'rope
The U.S. used to have funiculars everywhere and there’s still a few survivors like the ones in Pittsburgh but I never heard of a major accident like the one in Portugal. There used to be all kinds of gory train wrecks and you’d think some tourist funicular would be unsafe and poorly regulated but they must have used some kind of super deadman emergency brake in case the cable snapped.
Funi car :)
>>2053210Lisbons "Elevadores" aren't funiculars, they're a strange and unique hybrid, though they have two cars on a rope acting as counterweights, the cars have motors and drivers. The cars are electrically connected in series, so that if anyone of them stops, both stop, or to put it differently, they only get as much power as the one giving the least power.
>>2053235Usually funiculars have an emergency brake which is like a clamp that grips the rails. However this isn't possible on the Elevadores because they run on the street, so I don't know what sort of emergency brake they have.In the very early days, when funiculars worked without power and used water ballast instead, they had a rack rail for breaking.
Post funiculars. This is the one that inspired the famous song.
https://youtu.be/QLYS838WTAs?si=zgX2OZCBxDzG0xCr1902 footage of the Mount Beacon incline in New York’s Hudson Valley
> Our guy The third British victim killed in the Lisbon funicular crash has been named by police.David Young, 82, from Holyhead on Anglesey, was among 16 people who died last Wednesday when the Glória funicular derailed and crashed into a building in Portugal's capital.His family described him as a "lifelong transport enthusiast", saying it was a comfort that "his final moments were in pursuit of the hobby which gave him so much happiness".
>>2053210They'll fucking kill you
>>2053252there's a famous song about funiculars?
>>2053396>saying it was a comfort that "his final moments were in pursuit of the hobby which gave him so much happiness".seems a pretty grim thing to say desu, i bet the poor old bastard was terrified
>>2053406https://youtu.be/yTSAZAHiOa8?si=gqcBT8EnwURU5HIwI don’t know Italian but in some of the lyrics the singer compares his gf to the hotness of Vesuvius, then the chorus is “let’s go to the top, funiculi, funicula…”
Mt. Adams incline in Cincinnati, where streetcars rode on platforms. Other cities had something like this for freight wagons and carriages.
>>2053396What type of public transport would you want to get killed by /n/?
>>2053446Plane, there is no hope, so you instantly know you're doomed
>>2053455>there is no hopeLook up JAL 123 sometime.
>>2053446https://youtu.be/IAiV0X1jFp8?si=0HTFqpUNBalcImNDScalded to death by the steam
>>2053446Passenger Shuttle to Enceladus 2051 AD
>>2053210>Fucking ai shit
