ADRLIN
Honestly??!! We are posting the fantasy now? Please don't assume if we got meglav train, we got meglav pod already. We got fission reactor, but still some time until viable fusion.
n3r0
This goes to show that people don't have any idea what they really want.
Snake Oil Baron
Except for the lack of antigravity technology this seems like a very practical idea. Just build them with a partition down the middle so the strange woman you need to ride with can't smack you when someone cuts you off.
Jerome Thomas
So many problems! Strong winds? Luggage space? etc.
g2525
@Snake Oil Baron
Don't assume something if you don't understand what it's talking about in the video. At 1:43 it shows a piechart which shows the geological composition of Chengdu.
this 钒 is Vanadium in chinese this 钛 is Titanium this 磁鐵礦 is Magnitite under the piechart is 100亿吨 this means 10 billion ton; its referring to the amount of magnetite under Chengdu. The vehicle is using the magnetite in the ground to hover.
Bruce H. Anderson
Hovering (maglev) is cool I guess, but this will mean infrastructure in defined pathways. A magnetic track could probably handle the stopping/starting/merging. But how do you get the " hover car" to the track? Or off? This seems like a fancy light rail with pods. Wheels, I've heard, don't take much energy to support a transport device, and they work in lots of places. And of course there is the question regarding the effects of EMFs on the passengers.
Bob Fately
Certainly a cute little bugger, doubtful it could ever be realized as a working vehicle - for maglev to work (not meglav) requires huge amounts of power - no way that car has batteries strong enough to get it to maneuver or stop (if that's even possible - no friction means it would take more power to halt).
CGI, anyone?
wle
"using the magnetite in the ground to hover. "
ha ha! my only wish is to live long enough to see that work!
wle
wle

why is 'the wheel' such a problem that has to be constantly 'solved'?
a wheel takes zero energy to 'hover'
how much does this thing take?
wle..
Snake Oil Baron
@g2525
Don't assume that because someone states something that they are being serious. I did indeed see the visual aid of the white arrow power coming from the rainbow layers beneath the earth to help lift the car and deduced that the designers were hoping for some geomagnetic mechanism to make this possible. I just didn't see it as sensible, hence the need for antigravity.
There is a reason that, amongst the computer graphics, there is no real footage of a tiny device being floated a millimeter or two above the magnetic field of Chengdu as a proof of concept.