2023-02-06

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Tom Scott

At Velocity Valley in Rotorua, New Zealand, there's the Shweeb: a pedal-powered monorail. It's a fun ride: but in 2010, Google gave it a million dollars as a potential "future of transit". ▪ Thanks to Velocity Valley: https://velocityvalley.co.nz/

SOURCES:

https://web.archive.org/web/20091109051951/http://shweeb.com/index.php?m=faq

https://web.archive.org/web/20081012033535/http://www.project10tothe100.com/faq.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20120506113239/http://www.google.com/onceuponatime/project10tothe100/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-27/whatever-happened-to-the-shweeb

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/business/13m-backing-for-shweeb/ERNGSPNILIFWR7YC4TU2A6DEYY/

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-human-monorail-shweeb-2010-9

Camera: Rakaea Te Rangi-Trotman

Producer: Virginia Wickham at Kevin & Co https://www.kevinandco.co.nz/

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