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Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

TIL the UK built a working hovertrain prototype in the 1970s and then abandoned it

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TIL the UK built a working hovertrain prototype in the 1970s and then abandoned it

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Fuck Cars@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

The forgotten tech marvel that changed absolutely nothing

In the ’70s, the UK tried to build a train that hovered. It was fast. It looked like something from science fiction. And it actually worked — at least for a ...

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Fucking tech bros. Hovertrains are stupid, inefficient and expensive
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  So just keep one running to look cool.

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