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Only you can prevent gadgetbahn fixation. I would say “just build a train” but I really don’t need to because the PRC is actually pretty good at doing that.
wait what's the meta on gadgetbahns these days? I don't really see what's wrong with this because even if it's impractical or limited in other ways it's still an engineering achievement that advances China's technical capabilities in ways that might be hard to see right now.
EDIT: No creativity allowed if you're an engineer. Only do things already proven to work. No innovation, only work. Like, what? Maybe I'm being dense. Help me out here, please.
It’s a product that looks very high tech and fancy without offering any actual benefit over proven existing technology, usually for the purpose of convincing some small branch of the government to find some silly project.
This seems to be implemented positively in the one place its implemented, since it takes up so little space on the ground along with the energy efficiency thing. It seems needlessly cynical to just write it off as nothing but a novelty like one of those chairs that just hold themselves up with string.
Gadgetbahn: :geordi-no:
Gadgetbahn, China: :geordi-yes:
Only you can prevent gadgetbahn fixation. I would say “just build a train” but I really don’t need to because the PRC is actually pretty good at doing that.
wait what's the meta on gadgetbahns these days? I don't really see what's wrong with this because even if it's impractical or limited in other ways it's still an engineering achievement that advances China's technical capabilities in ways that might be hard to see right now.
EDIT: No creativity allowed if you're an engineer. Only do things already proven to work. No innovation, only work. Like, what? Maybe I'm being dense. Help me out here, please.
reflexive anti-techbro-ism
(it's cool shiny new tech so it must be bad)
It’s a product that looks very high tech and fancy without offering any actual benefit over proven existing technology, usually for the purpose of convincing some small branch of the government to find some silly project.
:this:
Folks, this is just a gadgetbahn until it proves itself in service.
I can cut them some slack because at least this gadgetbahn didn't block decades of high speed rail development like :melon-musk:
Yeah this gadgetbahn doesn't seem to be actively hindering construction of infrastructure at all.
This seems to be implemented positively in the one place its implemented, since it takes up so little space on the ground along with the energy efficiency thing. It seems needlessly cynical to just write it off as nothing but a novelty like one of those chairs that just hold themselves up with string.