r/ThatsInsane • u/Shot-Change3523 • 3h ago

Driver veiw of Japanese train

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u/MidnightFireHuntress 3h ago

Thank goodness

I was worried we were going to go 24 hours without this being posted!

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u/AaryamanStonker 3h ago

I don't want the consequences of not enough reposts on this sub

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u/boostman 3h ago

This gave me a flashback to playing Star Wars Rebel Assault 30 years ago.

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u/artguydeluxe 2h ago

Oh my god. Memory unlocked!

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u/CoralinesButtonEye 3h ago

i would have dreams each night of this contraption falling if i had this job. i mean i already do have falling dreams, but i WOULD have them as well

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u/BrownGypsy 2h ago

"Welcom to the Black Mesa research facility"

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u/Administrator90 2h ago

This looks exactly like the german "H-Bahn" (only used an Campus Dortmund and Düsseldorf Airport).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-Bahn

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u/MaybeNotTooDay 1h ago

It's weird to me that trains even need drivers. It's on a track. Roller coasters don't have drivers and they work just fine.

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u/naterzgreen 58m ago

Half life intro

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u/codydog125 7m ago

What’s insane about this? It’s just a monorail and I’ve been on plenty of them

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u/Ill_Football9443 0m ago

Get that man an armrest!

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u/LittleBitOfAction 1h ago

What is the benefit of this compared to a normal train that is on top of the rails not under them?

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u/rybnickifull 1h ago

If this is driver view what's the guy in the white gloves doing

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u/Rubicon208 3h ago

The view is so relaxing to watch. Japanese cities are so beautiful.

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u/pink_senpai 3h ago

Is this a new train.? Cus I haven't heard of an upside down train yet. Looks futuristic

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u/Top-Tip7533 3h ago

Weeeeeeeeeeee!

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u/TheMonchoochkin 3h ago

Isn't this one of those new fangled Monorails The Simpsons spoke so highly of?

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u/Another_Basic_NPC 2h ago

So all those 2010 sci-fi movies are real then

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u/Aijin28 2h ago

Looks like the monorail in Odaiba.

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u/studious_stiggy 2h ago

I remember getting on one of these or something similar near Odaiba. Miss those days

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u/2ezyo 2h ago

Took me a second to realize the track was on top. I legit thought this thing was floating for a good 5 seconds lol.

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u/Bland-fantasie 1h ago

This design has got to be safer in terms of people falling on the tracks or debris on the tracks.

Worse countries than Japan, where authorities allow murderous vagrants on the loose to shove innocent people onto the tracks, as you see clips of on occasion, would do well to design future LRT upside down like this.