"Someone is gathering every crumb you drop..."
Advantages I see:
- you can hop on and off wherever you want. That makes them useful for short trips
- no waiting time; you can hop on whenever you want. That likely makes up for lack of speed on short trips.
- if built at ground level, pedestrians can cross the line fairly easily wherever they want (hop on, hop off on the other side), so these wouldn’t split cities in half the way railways do, but only for pedestrians.
Disadvantages I see:
- slow for longer journeys
- power inefficient if there are few passengers (trains are, too, but this is a really, really long train. Imagine moving these 3km of track to move 10 persons). You can’t scale down capacity for less busy hours.
- all maintenance requires shutting down the system (in contrast, with trains, you take off the train and put another one on for most maintenance)
- ¿safety?
Oh, the Internet? You had no trouble sending me the 404 page, so why not just send me the page with Bard on it?
Did it mess with your ability to perceive time, or alter your recollection of how you once perceived time, or alter your ability to assess your perception of time, or activate a hidden "too aware of second-order time phenomena" organ
Maybe it’s my neurodivergence talking but that seems pretty straightforward advice.
Sometimes you aren't skilled or knowledgeable enough to help, and you'll just do more harm than good if you try.
Sometimes by helping, you'll cause more harm to yourself than you'll prevent in the other person.
Etc.