Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000. 

I’m glad you pointed out what a gadgetbahn is, but you seem to have done a couple videos supporting some of them, like the one with the self driving cars, which are a major gadgetbahn

How long was the ride? Did you get out of breath at any point? How fast do you wreckin you got? Is only one person allowed on the "course" at a time?

I've been here before. I did the skydive experience and those screams from the swing were audible over the fans! I hope you got to experience some of the other things here too!

1 hour ago? Is everything alright Tom?

Could they havesome mechanism to transfer the swinging motion into the peddling motion. ( regenerative swinging? :) just for laughs

It has the dubious honour of being shweeb

A fellow AdamSomething fan? Everything can and will be reduced to trains.

Well said lmao

There is also busses, but worse,

@@LordSesshaku that is trains but worse - so you're already covered :)

I sometimes wish I could do that on these narrow public bike lanes.

"hurry uuuup"

That's probably the most interesting part of this to me. For fixed PoI destinations like an amusement park/zoo/airport/etc. this seems like a novel way to get around them at a somewhat quick speed. The problematic part to me is merging onto the main line, or when you have a traffic backup on a terminal for disembarkation. You end up with an entire cluster of pods longer than the siding can accommodate then another pod comes and slams into it at 25mph/40kmh. It's problematic, but interesting.

Probably an idea of an Audi driver!

i do this all the time on the road!

You gotta give it a shot mate

Same but like now I wanna go on it.

Maybe it's cause it's so close to Rotorua?

You don't hear about it, you just wander around and it finds you. Or you can just follow the distant screams

I was Born and raised here (20M) and I've never heard about it! I even went to Rotorua multiple times and I still haven't heard/seen it whilst I was there!

I feel like this thing is a liability nightmare. To make it really profitable, you'd have to have it open to a dozen people or so at a time at LEAST. There is a reason theme park rides at Disney and Universal run so many people at once. Otherwise, you'd have to charge way more for individual tickets. And if you have a dozen people on this thing, you already know what is going to happen. There will be a bottleneck with one person going slower than everyone else, everybody else starts crashing into the back of the person in front of them. Whiplash, property damage, all kinds of problems. Aint no way. Also, what if someone has an issue while riding it? People have heart attacks, strokes, seizures, and all kinds of problems while riding theme park rides, but everything that is not a rollercoaster has a way to stop the ride and get them off immediately. If this thing is hanging suspended in air too far off the ground to reach, all you could do is have the people behind push the person to the end of the track. I think all of this would fall under gross negligence because the problems with it are OBVIOUS to anyone that actually thinks about it for more than 30 seconds. The park would be responsible for any harm coming to people riding the thing because all these issues are entirely foreseeable.

it isn't even public transport if its a one seater car that does not need a transportation job to drive. its just a normal transportation vehicle but instead of on wheels, its on a monorail system

yes. that is why taxis are expensive but busses or trains aren't.@@TheDrexxus

⁠​⁠@@TheDrexxusthe shweeb is a one pod per track system so there’s no way of hitting or bumping into another pod, the shweeb tracks are designed at a distance that the two pods cannot touch eachother. the highest point of the track is when you go over the bottom shweeb, and even if something were to happen heath wise, the pod would either roll forwards down the hill, or back down where it came from, from there the staff can assess the situation and be able to reach the person inside the pod

Kind of like how Elon's Las Vegas Loop combined the bad parts of cars and the bad parts of subways. Clearly the main mistake the Schweeb's inventor made was not being born insanely rich.

@@tjenadonn6158 I still can’t get over the fact that the Teslas in the Vegas loop still aren’t self-driving, you’d think a fully controlled and enclosed tunnel system would be the easiest place to run self-driving cars on as a demo

@@Padgriffin what's even scarier is that the self-driving apparently isn't good enough for tunnels with no turns or oncoming traffic, yet they feel it perfectly fine to run it on public roads!

@@tjenadonn6158 You assume Elon Musk cares about building car subways, instead of practicing his drilling equipment while building a space mining operation.

@@kasimirfreeman Then why spend this much money on the loop instead of using it to perfect the drilling?

Now if we could just get him to do videos about bricks...

just be infront of them and hit the breaks hard.

They already got to him when he visited West Virginia University

Yes, the Monorail Dark Money... Tom, you shweeb!

Despite all the bitching it's still an awesome attraction for tourists or amusement parks.

He just hates monorails

@@mvwilHe wouldn’t have to hate them if they weren’t pointless and obstructive

Thing got a million dollars when it literally has the worst cons of both bikes and trains and clearly wasn't the future of transport. I'd be angry too

@@thetactician2787 Who cares how much money it got from a multi-billion dollar megacorporation? Is it your money? It's exactly 0% your business what they decide to invest in.

how is it low-key? he very explicity said that this invention was garbage xD

"Stop making Shweeb happen; its' not going to happen"

No! walking is one of your main competitors, Shweeb! and it's got you hard beat with overtaking alone! Why draw attention to the possibility of just walking to wherever the Shweeb station is?

@@TheWinjin still fetched a million...i wonder how

@@alex0589 From Google? Probably found the one suit there who still had an idea of "fun" and said "Ramming speed!"

​@@alex0589 a million was like 1/100,000 of their value, they probably wouldn't even notice

Good one!

🤣🤣

“Tell me…do you Shweeb? You will.”

I have found a way to outpizza the hut

Take my like and be off with ye

It's like the physics department at one university that have a 4 storey high slide out of the building. Only for practical demonstrations of physical principles, of course.

Honestly though, what would be wrong with that? Seems like one of the only actual uses for the Shweeb: very short distances and novelty.

It's a great idea for a limited sized campus like Google has, in reality if you had a sprawling city sized network of these things, it would be absolutely impossible to control or police. Plus all it takes is one unit to breakdown to snarl up all of that particular loop.

@@Chiphunk Exactly! I imagine that this would be a fun way for getting around medium-sized areas like the Google campus or an alternative to the big monorails at theme parks. So what if the original idea was for mass transit and they didn't quite achieve that? It still looks like a really cool way of getting around.

@@steemlenn8797 Are you talking about the MI campus of TUM?

you fell off

@@420roachdoggjr and you were never anything, which is more tragic?

@@nudnud9 a washed up youtuber desperately trying to remind the world he still exists

I think he "apologized" about the noise, not about his smirk. He represents the amusement park. (Not sure where the idea to apologize for a smirk comes from tbh... Smiling looks good on video. Smiling is a natural reaction to people screaming in joy.)

@@u1zha I think you two are on the same page? He apologized WHEN he smirked. He didn't apologize FOR the smirk.

@@u1zhaYes, that’s what I meant, I guess I wasn’t totally clear about him apologizing for the noise

Hear me out: Riverside shweebway. If you have a bout of spontaneous human combustion, just open the pod and fall in the river. If it's a heart attack, just accept your fate and let the river consume you. You simply cannot lose!

just like how the hyperloop is a train thats highly vulnerable to terrorist attack, requires huge amounts of power to vacuum down, and only moves a small amount at a time.

@@merseyless a burial at sea. Truly a worthy demise.

It is undeniably safer though. I've biked through downtown Seattle on rush hour, you really ask yourself if you're ready to die that day lmao

@@Falcodrin To be completely fair, any train going full-speed is highly vulnerable to terrorist attack.

Mostly because it tears your skin off but people that make a big deal out of that just hate fun

It worked in Secret of Mana, it worked in Super Mario 64, how much more proof do we need?

Whatever the cannonballs were made of, you’d need to armored in that to be protected from the explosion,

Looks like there's two lines next to each other.

I could see this used in a business campus setting like Google's... Which makes sense that they threw a million dollars at it.

I'd pay to go one. I think it could be quite a hit in amusement parks

I would ride it anywhere but America because I would end up pushing some 300 pound mom who doesn't want to peddle uphill

The thing in rides like this is there will always be someone who feels like messing it up, the reply above me is one example of many

Could definitely see it used on large business campuses and school campuses

your username says it all

From Google. Google is known to waste money into braindead things

wow its the AAA gaming industry

You should visit the netherlands, you wouldn't believe your eyes😏

Bike lanes in this part of England are often painted over footpaths rather than roads. This makes it dangerous for cyclists when an aggressive pedestrian holds out a fist as the cyclist goes past. It seems to be a popular pastime recently.

certainly, but not enough for those $1,000,000, right?

@@pabloenrique20 I would say not, but then I haven't a wallet as deep as Google's.

@@pabloenrique20 a million is not a lot considering all the safety regulations, engineering, materials, legal paperwork, and construction costs

Google or our cities or both dropped the ball bigtime on these. That track is far cheaper than a lane costs whether a freeway lane or a city lane. They need to be electric and auto-piloted. The cars can link up and use less power overall. People can rent one for the night, buy their own, and rent them by the month depending on what they want. People can travel solo even if they're legally "intoxicated", wrecks would be VERY VERY rare. The cost of the electricity would be cheap vs gas or battery electric vehicles, and the emissions would be FAR FAR LESS than a Tesla. I literally have thought this should be the future for over 20 years since I was 18.. so why isn't it?

@@jonslg240 money, thats why

You bet nobody's taking the time to wipe down their Schweeb once they get to their destination. If everything else about this thing hadn't killed it COVID would've.

Yes, I recall once getting a tad too close to the seat of a gymnasium's exercise bicycle - within whiffing distance - off-putting is the word.

also mention the motion sickness

@@tjenadonn6158 I can already see the ads to get you to clean up after; 'Sweep your Shweeb'.

@@wnnetwork I would destroy at least 3 of these on my weekend commute home from a night drinking.

I think you're right. Which is kinda sad, because at 60kmh you could go far.

what problem does it solve

@@corneliusthecrowtamer1937 It's fun?

@@LordSandwichII I dont see how a bike swinging in the middle of the air at whilst being enclosed translates to "fun"

I can't see any situation where there are multiple ShweebPods on the same ShweebLine being practical. Ramming into the person in front of you is not a feature. There's got to be *somewhere* it would work but that's a huge limitation.

This part was so random it had me laughing out loud

"The Shweeb is more practical as a form of transportation than the giant swing behind me with the screaming person on it."

@@iabervon Why don't we just launch people on a ballistic trajectory and give them a parachute to land with?

"Sorry about that." **turns towards the adjacent ride.**

If anything, that makes it stand out for me as a brilliant and cheap carnival ride. No one would stop the clock for an actual transit system like this, but it literally screams amusement park to me.

Or even for getting to/from off-site parking.

Give them an air conditioner and a scuba tank air supply to cruise past (erupting)volcano's.

That is probably the only niche this thing makes sense in.

Until someone in front of you wants to enjoy the nice view while they're having a 3-hour lunch.

@@JH-wd6dp If I had a large amusement park, I'd have this set up as a fun way to get around the park to other rides/the food and beverage areas/etc.

Found Adam Something's alt

or maybe we could take it off the rails and put some wheels on it, to make it more independant and then remove the pod frame to make it lighter, so its easier to ride and more compact and... oh wait... XD

@@SharienGaming ooo! hell no!

@@SharienGaming no, let's actually stick with trains

@@SharienGaming I know you were referenching it being a bike but it really hits like you were suggesting cars

And fair enough; it's not like $1M is a lot for them

Probably wanted a track at the office to ride around in. Could you imagine the Apple building encircled by these tracks?

I'm not sure if they have kept this since the addition of electric pedal assist, but they kept a weekly and all time leaderboard of lap times here. Being based in Rotorua, a mecca for mountain bikers, you'd often see big names in the sport fighting for top spot after visiting the town for races/events

At its completion at a cost of $83 million in January 1943, the Pentagon was the world's largest office building, covering 29 acres (12 hectares)-including a 5-acre (2-hectare) central court-and Chief of staff "God dam it where's the president gone again" Aid- "he doing another lab of the 7 floor"

@@orterves Thats like 4-5 google engineer's yearly salary.

And then put it on ... A MONORAIL! That way it can be even *worse*!

Outstanding move

I mean, it does address the biggest problems with biking in cities: not enough space to add bike line (this can be above traffic), exposure to elements (this is enclosed), theft (you get out of the pod and don't worry about it) Honestly I would love to ride this to work

The biggest problem for bikes in cities is not a lack of space, but the existence of cars.

@@gracelandtoo6240 exactly, the "lack of space" is just "no bike lanes > i'll drive a car > too many damn cars".

A tandem version - with the people sitting side by side - with the pedals 180 degrees out of phase with one another could help with the swinging. The weight movements would cancel each other out. It would still tilt, but the swaying would dampened.

Indeed, there is a reason why amusement parks will drop tens of millions on a single roller coaster. It's a billion dollar industry and you got to attract those dollars to your location with something unique and different somehow.

Imagine something like this going through a city. Not for transport reasons, but to give tours. You'd make a lot of money in a tourist destination.

@@ComputerSchool101imagine being able to take this up a steep hill or mountain instead of walking or driving. Like an inverse self propelled ski lift?

People wouldn't be willing to pay the amount of money needed even for maintenance, it's not a feasible project. It really is stupid.

@@ragnkja can't have one without the other

that and "fund high-speed rail".

@@lepannean4231 rail in general. Intracity light rail is also key.

Problem is, modern cities are too dense to just randomly insert more bike lanes without disrupting other traffic. I think this idea attracted Google's investment because they saw it was cheap, flexible and could be implemented at higher altitudes for more vertical density to personal transportation. It's a niche that bikes or trains can't touch, and the implementation and coverage would be much more broad and cheaper than developing train/subway tracks in the middle of big cities. Problem is, the thing that would make this shine (high altitude) also makes this kind of design much more dangerous when things go wrong (and human operated vehicles go wrong often enough), so the cost to actually ensure these things are safe would probably offset it's only advantage.

@@VanisherXP Disrupting car traffic isn't an issue if the new infrastructure replaces car traffic.

thats so crazy

Here he is in control, even if not full control, that is a huge difference from a roller coaster.

@@tenJajcus exactly, he talked about this in the safety third podcast.

he is quite soft

@@pyropulseIXXI quite the observation..

Ahh, just ride a sheep.

Don't forget the Hamilton jetboat...

@@donnamarie3617 I always thought Bill Hamilton's greatest invention was perfecting the nutcracker ski tow, but I'm a skier rather than a boater or a push bicyclist.

And then Zorb down the hill

You forgot the trebuchet step.

i had it on 1.5x and could have sworn that was a seagull

Stuff that happens

@@scslre lmao

Shweeb

It’s shweebin’ time!

It's kinda like the plumbus from Rick and Morty 🤣

The money Google gave to this project? Pocket money for them.

They arent really futuristic, monorails have already been tried and taking electricity off of it isnt anything futuristic. Monorails are on their way out, if they ever even got in 🤣

@@ldelgg I think the term is retro futuristic

hello niko

Tom hates monorails.

@@CHIIIEEEEEEEEFFFFSSS With good reason, as in the majority of cases anything from a bicycle lanes to proper Railways are more effective and efficient.

* had predetermined routes that many people use * could hold many people at the same time for efficiency * (trains)

@@noel.friedrich or bus

Sitting up would make the pods taller which would require more elevation in the rails. You're right about recumbent bikes though, for sure.

And the aerodynamics of velomobiles.

The swinging is a side effect of speed + monorail. The only way you get rid of it is by going slower or accepting more wear and tear.

@@laurencefraser Position of center of mass vs Point of Pendulation. Also having the head closest to the Pivotation point would improve the experience, reducing nausea.

@@laurencefraser I think the swinging is mostly a side-effect of the pedaling. A suspended rail carriage wouldn't swing that much normally.

Is that bad?

He has a one track mind.

Monorail, monorail, MONORAIL!

Stereo-rail

and that without covering maglev.

But the "sorry about that" was perfect! 😃

That's the only thing that caught my eye here. Sheeb has demonstrated us (not that we really need such demonstration) how much hubris and incompetence those supposedly savvy businessmen have. A single transportation expert would've saved them a million dollars, but who needs excepts anymore?

So much for the savvy capitalist free market where only the government wastes money!

It'd be extremely on-brand for an oil company like BP. It's a very "innovative looking" but completely impractical mobility solution. It lets them feign interest in sustainable transit without actually financing something that has the risk of displacing anything that needs their fuel to work.

clearly the decisions are being made by people who want the appearance of the future- and the conversations that come with it- without actually achieving any notable transport goal

@@majorgnu Bang on. BP would want it to fail for sure. Of fing course they wouldn't be into a transport system that doesn't uses almost no power. How this whole thing wasn't a massive transparent joke before it got 1 cent of funding is beyond me.

Bicycles with canopies work fine in the rain

Also, unlike a stationary bike, it takes you somewhere

@@plantlings6353 It's an unstationary bike!

@@JoranGroothengel so... a bike?

I think this could actually be a great exercise device for millionaires

They also have a monorail system and I believe have brought back the cable car. As well, I almost for got they have a train, tram, and ferry! They might as well add one of these!

It did actually get practical use in an airport, although the maintenance costs are starting to get too high.

Technology Connections has a good video all about the people mover. Even booked a flight to texas just to get footage of the one in an airport.

not only for amusement ride, we have one people mover in Venice (Italy) from the car parking to the city PS Venice is very small

To be fair, it's one of the few incarnations where you realistically can say "well, who knows, it might just work?" You have seen how fast they are. While you technically can go 60 with an electric bike, it's way too dangerous. A single pebble could kill you. Not with this system. As a mid-distance car replacement, well, it might juuuust work, maybe? I mean it would be faster than a tram and you would not passivly sit around. Active transportation, fast speed...

@@steemlenn8797 I think given the choice most people would choose "passively sitting around" over intense exercise, especially of they're expected to be somewhat presentable when they get to the destination.

@@tjenadonn6158 I choose intense exercise over the cost of owning and operating a car tbf. The presentable part is a fair concern tho. I probably wouldn't bike to work if my place of work didn't have locker rooms

Bothering me about what ever did I do with that one million google bucks...

a very embrassing, google backed, mistake

You mean, exactly like the one from the video is?

I could see it being an option for transiting to/from a parking area as well. A major Florida theme park does this with their own well-known monorail system. It's definitely a "fun" idea even if it doesn't quite re-invent the bicycle in a practical manner.

They had these at parks in the 1950's.

With ski gear? Cold conditions with ice? Maintenance alone with be terrible! It's not practical at all.

What do you mean by would? It currently is?

I have a feeling it was a 360 camera, but I could be wrong. GoPros have gotten really good!

I didn't even notice it was so good. That shot should've been sickening to watch now I think about it

GoPro (other brands probably as well) has crazy stabilization, helmet cam while skiing almost looks like on a gimbal, I had the helm in shot a few times and it swung around bay an estimated 10 -15 deg left and right.

@@noisycarlos You can see the camera mount for the external shots, I think it's a GoPro. And probably a second one as well inside the pod. And a drone of course. And a main camera for the interview. High production values for a 5-minute video.

It’s probably one of those 360 cameras where you can stabilize the footage in post.

You can see the external camera mount on the outside shots. It's a GoPro. Crazy stabilisation.

That's exactly how Elon's Musk Hyperloop was born.

They also are "quiet" and don't necessitate tunneling, forgetting that NYC's metro system was built a century ago and that there gave been a 100 years in transit and rail technology since then specifically to mitigate that issue. (tunneling is still very expensive but it's also the best way to not hear stuff on rails, so...)

I both love trains and bicycles, and acknowledge that self driving electric vehicles have a lot of potential. Both bicycles and trains were -- at one point -- new tech.

Here is a bit of a crazy thing, the idea to put locomotives on rails was an idea they came up with because there were already rail systems in place for running things like coal, and some other bulk products/ ores from up near the mines, down to the shore, and they were there centuries before the steam engine. So, arguably, the train could be said to be the result of centuries of incremental changes.

@@sephreed1938 cars are objectively poor forms of transport

@@OhKnow379 how so? Not attacking you, just want to hear your take.

@@zynel413 cars are the most inefficient form of ground transport, both in terms of cost per km/mile, and in term of externalities (pollution, noise, danger to other road users, co2 emissions, use of public space). Buses, Metro systems, trams, bicycles, e-bikes, trains and walking are all much more efficient.

exactly. its awful for actual public transport. but for a tourist sightseeing thing would be great.

The novelty alone would bring visitors I suspect.

Id commute to Boulder in this

Could have long tracks and waystations/break areas with platforms and a track operator to switch people off the main line into the "station" for a break and enjoy the scenery. Would be very cool

@@Reverend_Salem "What a gorgeous tourist spot we found here. Oh well, we're being rammed from behind by a bunch of teenagers"

I mean it should be the basics of being a human being.

@@JamesSanderson85 It should

@@janelantestaverde2018 These days, I set the bar real low (not that Tom needs any help!).

@@JamesSanderson85 Key word _should_

Oh wow you should be a critic.

Going over areas at your own speed = going over areas at other people’s speed. It’s a monorail!

And if you slow down and gawp too much, the racer behind you will catch up up and give you a "friendly" nudge...

You only be going "at your own speed" if noone slower is in front of you, and noone faster behind you. Aka, you only go at your own speed if hardly anyone else is using it. Which will make it way to expensive for any Zoo or Museum. You need your own private ranch if want such a system to ride around at your own speed.

@@AbiGail-ok7fc big brain idea: three lanes probably over top of each other so you can see from both sides. 1 speed demon lane 2 causal and kids 3 gawker/health issue/elderly

@@AbyssEyes02 you asked if you could rather than if you should

Or thought of and then abandoned it

I mean, the startups that come to that realization quickly shut down.

Y'know except for all the startups that did come up with the greatest idea and are now worth millions or billions of dollars.

@jetison333 not every startup, but startups in general. There will always be someone creating a company around the world's dumbest idea and then somehow raise millions before inevitably going under.

@@jetison333 Yes true... a small minority but you are right.

Can't wear a skirt, nowhere to put your kids, nowhere to put bags of shopping/school backpacks, nowhere to put a dog or crutches or anything like that ... how many people really need to get somewhere without any luggage, and without it mattering if they're sweating all over the place? Even if it was implemented somehow, I couldn't see uptake being that high when at least on the bus you have somewhere to put your stuff

@@Inkinhart say what you like but it works for a very niche market - likely men, young and able-bodied, no family or kids, financially fairly well-off so carrying their shopping home isn't such an issue... wait a minute, remind me who came up with this system again..?

who in need of crutches uses a bike?

@@marc_frank I think theyre comparing it to buses since its supposed to be the future of public transport

@@marc_frank Me, as an example

Just normal in a theme park.

GoPro's (or a similar competitor) have ever so more awesome stabilisation.

it's been cheap and easy for more than a decade

​@@LegendLength so's yer mom

Family ones need multiple race tracks, like the kids RC cars. Like four parallels to race each other. Except I'm not sure how corners would work, as the shoulders will be wildly different in length.

I've been on it before, and I can assure you that it is not a "minimal amount of exercise"!

It could be a simple way of getting from A to B between points in a massive wooded area or something. Rather than wandering through nature, why not get there 12 times faster and glide through the trees, slalom style

@@misterdayne2792 Oh my gosh that gave me an idea! Remember the Tom Scott video of the aerial bucket way? When they decommission it, they should put a modified Schweeb where the people going down assist the people going up. It's brilliant!

We already have systems doing that (monorails, gondolas, elevated tram ways), which don't have the hassle of dealing with people going around with at different speeds, and which have a much higher throughput due to more efficient boarding/disembarking.

Have you ever heard of Ziplines?

@@ConcerninglyWiseAlligator Nope, what's that?

@@AbiGail-ok7fc That's not as fun. And more boring for kids since they can't race one another.

@@AbiGail-ok7fc monorails, gondolas and elevated tram ways all have higher construction costs and running costs, for a cheap local wildlife exploring solution these could fill that gap

The Agrodome's still there, but they are now separate.

Hah! Momentum! Good one!

@@ragnkja Unless you’re predicting the usefulness or practicality of Stadia or the Shweeb. In which case it’s rather easy

@@colonelpopcorn7702 Stadia is cool af though. I used tf out of it

I got a free, really nice, controller and 4k Chromecast out of that! 😀👍

@@colonelpopcorn7702 Stadia was okay, however just the idea that you don't own a single thing in it was an instant no from me.

@@ok0_0 Stadia was cool… if you had amazing internet. And lived near a data center. It was bad if you didn’t.

default city is London? ok, get it

@@user-yj3mf1dk7b not really but it's a good example of a European city with traffic problems Although with timezones and longitude then it is kind of the default city because of the prime meridian

I wish I had a funding face, I wouldn’t have to work anymore

Many times the ideas are bad, but in many other cases it's the "Cosa Nostra" at work.

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