It's launch day for hardware partner !
New imagery, details, and a project preview in the launch video 
It's launch day for hardware partner !
New imagery, details, and a project preview in the launch video Conversation
It's launch day for hardware partner !
New imagery, details, and a project preview in the launch video ![David Watson 🥑](data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="96" height="96"><rect fill-opacity="0"/></svg>)
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2/7 Imagine gliding above the traffic below and getting to your destination quicker. Whoosh will change the way we travel around cities, hopefully solving the problems of congestion and parking.
It's a true revolutionary moment in the mode of transport, bringing the best of
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3/7 The beauty of it is you can install it along existing roads without disruption. Whoosh is a new way of traveling. It's an autonomous electric vehicle moving on its own dedicated guideway
4/7 It combines the best of Uber or Lyft with an urban gondola network. We've been working on this for five years, and we're really excited to be able to share it with the world.
5/7 Our plan is to build a Whoosh pilot in the Remarkables Park down in Queenstown, New Zealand. You'll be able to see it gliding above the river, arriving at stations. Imagine if you could Whoosh from the Queenstown airport directly to Fergburger on the lake.
6/7 Whoosh has so many possibilities — city center travel, connecting cities to airports, airports to parking locations, or sports stadiums to downtown regions. The guideway is simple and easy to expand, which means the possibilities are endless.
7/7 Come with us on the journey as we all Whoosh into the future.
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More about the Queenstown, NZ pilot project from the launch event
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Extended coverage from @1NewsNZ reporter Jared McCulloch in advance of the Whoosh launch event. The reporting covers multiple topics with Whoosh Technical Development Lead Peter Scott and @swyftcities CEO @jeralpo and includes a preview of our upcoming Whoosh project in
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It's a fast, cheap way to add capacity in urban areas and unlock urban growth
This is legitimately the stupidest form of mass transit for a city. Build a bus lane or a train stop trying to innovate our way out of our problems when we already have solutions that work well.
For those following along, here's a thread and linked podcast that speaks to the missing middle of the transit market
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Transportation dictates urban form.
Why autonomous gondolas were born at Google:
The strategic value of transportation.
After riding the Disney Skyline a few years ago I got to digging into the economics of gondolas.
What I liked:
- Posts and cables are cheap and gondolas are simple.
- It's quiet
- It's in the air
- It's fun and looks cool.
What confused me:
- why isn't it everywhere?
Show moreI had a similar experience transferring to the cable car integrated into Barcelona's public transit system! More than a decade before meeting , but it stuck with me. Gondolas should be everywhere, and + make them 10x better!
Imagine how much better Golden Gate Park would be if you could zip around (and beyond) like this!
love it, such an elegant solution, reminiscent of the simplicity of early cable cars, but helpfully off the ground!
This is not actual public transportation, it's just a glorified amusement park ride :P
Why not just use a regular elevated rail line?
It’s more substantial, yes, but there would be much more capacity and the automation can be done with basically just a couple of wires and insulators.
This seems like it would only work within airport terminals ngl.
Thanks, I see in the FAQ the carrying capacity is listed as 3,000ppl/hr (roughly same as ski cable cars), so you'd need a lot of routes to make a dent on the current mass transit?
Why would a city or transport provider choose to go with this startup instead of an established entity with hundreds of active installations, like Doppelmayr or LEITNER?
Interesting. They do work at ski resorts after all.
What happens when passengers start rocking the gondolas?
If the cable snaps do all the cars fall or will each pole have a device to catch the cable so only one section will fall.
so cool. what is the cost of this compared to an elevated light rail or monorail?
can see this work well in congested asian megacities. Manila or Jakarta come to mind.
We're excited! The technology works and is proven -- just watch it! Details on initial projects are coming soon! 
Stay tuned!
Stay tuned!
You know you can just build a train and dramatically increase the number of people it serves, right? Your video shows it moving less people than there are cars in the street
This will have to close when its windy and icing conditions prevent friction. Stations will at high level disabling people when the lifts break. An unsupervised box open to the public? Gonna get peed in, shat in and there will be a 50 foot high club.
i see these as mountain climbing service to connect to like a light rail or metro, kind of doing what inclines used to do in the us
It will need inspected all the time and maintains a car centric environment as shown in your vid. Capacity is fixed. Maybe useful in high demand mountain environments. Planning consent and existing service removal for pylons in an urban area especially in USA?Europe? Madness.
What's the speed on this? How reasonable is this for any sort of mass transit further than say a mile?
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When I took the train around Chicago it was definitely a cool experience. I wish more US cities had such a system in place.
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These only work when they connect to existing, robust transit systems and serve to address a topographical obstacle or to extend out the system (CDMX, Medellin, NYC Roosevelt Is.)
It's questionable you'd get ridership on otherwise car-centric place.
Wild. Have you considered this?
-runs on the road (existing infrastructure)
-flexible power source
-existing manufacturers
-does not leave people stranded in the air if it stops functioning
Oh boy a tech transit grifter. I bet sleep soundly knowing your little project is entirely designed to steal money from real public transit funding.
