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Re:Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison ... by narag on Monday November 03, 2025 @09:06AM (#45799060)
The slow strips on the outside moved at five miles an hour; the inner ones faster and faster...

Not good enough. The same strip should go faster and faster over time and decelerate near its end. It sounds impossible, but I can think of a few ways to make it work.

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Re:Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison ... by pmontra on Monday November 03, 2025 @12:00PM (#45801314)
The naive implementation is a train: everybody enters at once at a fixed point, the strip accelerates, everybody leave at the next stop or stay for the next stop. I wonder if you devised a way to make people keep accelerating while other enter and leave the strip. Side strips at lower speeds are too easy a solution.
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Re:Paris Had a Moving Sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison ... by josefx on Monday November 03, 2025 @09:37AM (#45799436)
One of the videos in the article mentions an accelerating moving walkway: https://youtu.be/CMlLPgAL2h0?t=240
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