On Sunday, 23 August 2020 12:34:19 UTC+1, Clive Arthur wrote:
On 23/08/2020 12:13, N_Cook wrote:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireless_locomotive


Don't know about locomotives , but for road transport ,they came to an
abrupt abondonment. All is fine until there is an accident. The flywheel
dislodges and continues like a much more energetic panjanderam,
demolishing everyone and everything in its very long path.

These never caught on either...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro_monorail

too many errors

...but it doesn't con men trying...

https://www.litmotors.com/

what's con about that?

The big issue people have with gyro balancing is that if things go wrong, stability is lost & carnage results. And IRL things go wrong & lawyers get greedy.


NT