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Re:What Thomas Edison expected job candidates to know by fnordfnordfnord on Friday February 15, 2013 @02:16PM (#5227890)
A street car? What's that? I've seen them in movies. I guess in the nineteen-twenties, knowledge about street cars might have been much more likely to have been in the minds of engineers that Edison would want to hire.
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Re:What Thomas Edison expected job candidates to know by a-priori on Friday February 15, 2013 @04:43PM (#5228854)
They still exist. In Toronto, streetcars are still one of the major forms of public transit in the downtown.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_streetcar_system

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Re:What Thomas Edison expected job candidates to know by fnordfnordfnord on Saturday February 16, 2013 @10:47AM (#5231780)
Yeah, I was exaggerating for effect. The point being that they are rare. They have double-decker ones in Hong Kong. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHFizrDGlUo
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