Meaning of people pod | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mobile cabin that attaches to an aircraft or helicopter.
2. A bus-like compartment carried by a lift truck, proposed in the late 1950s for transporting people and luggage from the airport terminal to an aircraft.
3. A driverless electric car for transporting a single person.
4. Any of various cars for carrying a small number of people as part of a public transportation system.
5. A small chamber for a single person.

Examples

“With a people pod snugged underneath, it can even transport troops.”

“Innovations such as the helicopter-carried people pod now being demonstrated in Los Angeles may be in use by 1980.”

“Additionally the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, located at Ft. Rucker, AL sent a team to test the toxic gas levels inside the people pods, when flying with doors open.”

“Using its own money, the company has spent a year designing and building a people pod to hang from the wing of an AV-8B Harrier jump jet.”

“It could lift a 155mm howitzer, or a van-like “people pod” taking 45 troops and was also capable of being fitted out as a command post or an emergency operating room.”

“Its concept is as follows: "Passengers are to be transported from the terminal together with baggage in a detachable bus-like compartment called a people pod on a lift truck.”

“Some of the concepts involved, which ought to be applicable elsewhere, are: people pods, as shown at the Cleveland show last June, which pick up unit loads of passengers for direct transportation to aircraft at the runway;”

“An unusual sight at the recent Northwestern Lumbermen's Association convention in Minneapolis was the Youngblood Express, a "people pod" coupled with a 20,000-pound straddle carrier.”

“Typical estimates for advanced design passenger handling systems are as follows: Boarding bridge over wing: approximately $300,000 each. People pod lounges: approximately $200,000 each. Mobile escalators: $70,000–100,000 each.”

“Each battery-powered people pod looks a bit like George Jetson's egg-shaped sky-car except for the two well-grounded wheels below.”

“In China, GM has demonstrated its EN-V concept to reportedly enthusiastic acceptance, and is working out the bugs there in a model “eco city” for the little personal people pods.”

“The vehicles were already available in the form of electrically powered people pods designed and built by EasyMile of Toulouse, France.”

“If you believe your Sunday papers. the answer is supposed to be "people pods in pneumatic tubes."”

“These little cars are called people pods. Each one has seats for two to four people. To ride in a people pod, you first buy a ticket from a computer. You push buttons on the computer to tell it where you want to go. You put the ticket in a slot in the small computer on the people pod. The computer then controls your ride along tracks under the city. When you get out of the people pod, or out of the parking building, you go up to the street.”

“'Yeah, and conveying themselves round in those cryonic selfdrive people pods.”

“A people pod—a bi-rail system where each person gets into his or her own pod or car.”

“And now, much like the linear accelerators he designed to push his theoretical people pods, Musk is planning to encourage forward movement on more Hyperloop designs.”

“For what amounts to a transmission tunnel with two people pods, the Viper's cabin is actually quite roomy.”

“When they came to the people pods on Crater Street, Ace hid in the underground holding pod, hoping they wouldn't find him.”

“Life-sized people pods and a bespoke 'blue screen' sequence engage the visitor with real people and their actual city.”

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