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Stuff You Should Know

How Personal Rapid Transport Works

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.582.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2008

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Personal rapid transport combines the best traits of subways and taxis, and costs less to build than light rail. Could this be the future of transportation? Check out this HowStuffWorks podcast and learn more about personal rapid transport.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:30.5

Brought to you by the reinvented 2012 Camry.

0:33.3

It's ready.

0:34.1

Are you?

0:35.6

Welcome to Stuffy Shit No from House stuffworks.com.

0:40.1

Brought to you by Consumer Guide Automotive.

0:42.8

We make our buying easier.

0:44.8

Hi and welcome to the podcast on Josh Clark, a staff writer here at House stuffworks.com.

0:50.0

With me is the writer's editor extraordinaire, Mr. Chris Palette.

0:54.4

How's it going Chris?

0:55.4

It's going great Josh.

0:56.7

Thanks for asking.

0:57.7

So Chris I noticed you shaved your goatee.

0:59.7

It's startlingly different.

1:01.8

Yeah, yeah.

1:02.4

I'm not used to the air conditioning on my chin, but I'll get used to it.

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