A helicopter could up to inspect the full lengths of the line each day before they open at rush hour.
Who will inspect the complete set of secondary zip lines for emergency response teams, though?
(inside joke, you have to know Endgame's past history of absurd ideas/suggestions)
I have to admit I have in the past discussed using zip lines to escape burning skyscrapers.
A helicopter could up to inspect the full lengths of the line each day before they open at rush hour.
Who will inspect the complete set of secondary zip lines for emergency response teams, though?
(inside joke, you have to know Endgame's past history of absurd ideas/suggestions)
Various drones and hot air balloons would be hovering around for continuous inspections.
Quadcopter drone taxis that deliver you by window are obviously more convenient.
Ooh, ooh, hear me out!
What if you had an office-room that could fly from place to place and fit into slots in buildings?
Quadcopter drone taxis that deliver you by window are obviously more convenient.
My system doesn't require any power source. Just climbing a very tall ladder on each side if not already in a high rise building. Harnesses can be cycled through both sides to be re-used. Just gravity and momentum doing the work! NYC is condensed enough that most Z-routes probably could cover ths distance in one slide at a shallow angle (with maybe an initial steep drop of 200 feet or so off the top of the building to build up speed and the rest at barely 5-10 degree angles hopefully maintaining 50+ mph).
I think idiotic sums it up as usual.
EE needs to create his own thread about crackpot ideas. 50 mph ziplines are all about the journey, since life ends at the destination.
How tf is this crackpot? You're claiming they seriously couldn't create 5 mile cables? The building infrastructure is already there come on now. You know how many people would use these instead of driving 45 mins from Brooklyn to Manhattan every day and back, or using the germ infested subway?
Ziplines are used in a practical way in mountainous areas or where the terrain makes them otherwise practical.
They do exist in some cities - but apparently only as tourist or luxury activities.
For example - a ride on a Dubai zipline costs about $200.
But that's cheaper than an Everest trip to its summit.
Got to pay a government fee on that one. Tens of thousands of dollars I believe.
Wouldn't they be a hazard to people using jet packs and flying robotaxis?
Those things will never get off the ground in NYC lol, like that supposed 200 mph between Manhattan and JFK airport in under 10 mins 😆
How much would you care to wager that your zip lines will get off the ground in NYC, lol?
Much more economically and tech feasible. I'm already imagining 20 lines that go from the top of 1 WTC to various major intersections/subway stations/large apartment buildings in Downtown Brooklyn. Or one that lands near the bottom of the new Brooklyn Tower, which you'd take an elevator up to the top of and get on yet a 2nd one to go to further destinations in Queens..etc. They'd also go over the Hudson River to Jersey City/Newark which would save people alot of money on scam tolls and alleviate alot of the tunnel traffic and thus pollution. ChatGPT+ helped me design some of the basic concepts so we'll likely be in business soon. Call it the "Ziptrain" system.
WHO in their right minds would under-write the liability issues when those lines break? I can see them measuring now....."well the line broke more on the Brooklyn side then the Manhattan side, so the Dodger's will have to pay for THIS one".
A helicopter could go up to inspect the full lengths of the line each day before they open at rush hour.