What are the advantages (преимущества) of a tube system?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 442.

What kind of cars shall we have in future?

What will the car of the future be like? It probably won't be red. Our response to colours isn't always the same. If you want people to stop when

they see a car in front of them, yellow is probably the best. When you go for adrive in the car of tomorrow you will certainly knowmore about the road in front of you. Your car radio will tellyou about the nextcomer before you can see it It willpick this up from a wire under the road. When you stop quickly, the light that tells the man behind you to be careful will spread across the car. At the same time a bag in frontof you will fill up with air to stop you hitting your head от the window. What will the car of the future run on? Not petrol whichis dirty and noisy. In future we'llprobably have electric cars.As a rulethe electric car can only make a short journey before going back to the garage. Or steam cars. That too would be quiet and clean. But in England there is a farmerwhohas invented a car that runs on manure (навоз) and he drives to London in it every week.

Trains of the Future. What about long-distance travel? Consider the "tube-train" suspended (подвешенный)and propelled bycompressed air. It may carry passengers on trips at 350 miles an hour. This idea is materialised in a 12-foot long model of a strange new aluminium torpedo train, The full-size train will run though an 18 foot diameter metal tube, while big propellerspump the air from the front to the rear.A tube system has many advantages: a tube train makes little noise (шум);the tube can be suspended, buried (зд. подземный)or even run through buildings; maintenance cost of this train will be low and passengers will be protected from bad weather.