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if it’s on one rail you could have them pass each other without needing to build a second set of tracks or relying on sidings to exist
The concept art shows both rails being used by a single car but still having the balancing problem. Worst of both worlds.
That's a little deployable arm that presumably allows it to travel faster. When it needs to pass, that can come up.
Oh God that's even worse. Guaranteed collisions via an unnecessary slow-moving part that is assumed to always function correctly.
Rail comes in pairs already so that you only have to build one engineered area, tunnel, bridge, etc. This is a bazinga idea.
Yes I read the article and that ambiguous language doesn't challenge what I said.
This is a really bad idea. The kind cooked up by academic transportation grifters looking to take a pile of money from the government to do a bad idea with the right buzzwords. This is how the bazinga industrial complex works.