Questions

After presenting the base my idea to the group last friday I seemed to get good feed back but I also had quite a few questions on how it would work.

I pitched it so that the whole thing would be out side but after talking and consideration I decided that having a magnetic floor that the pad would move on would be a really cool idea so that it would only have to be small and simple. There would be pipes going out of the buildings in order for it to transfer through the whole campus.

How would it be paid for? I'd find a way to make it eco friendly as that's the way of the future so hopefully it could run off of solar power most of the time but I guess it could be like using the library printers where you have to have an account and top it up every now and then. It'd have to be cheap as a lot of students can't afford much but as it would only really be for the lost and people in a hurry then not everyone would have to use it.

Should I make it under ground instead of over the school. No. I think that it's about time we are finally getting hover crafts. Plus why would you want to travel under the school when you could travel over it and see the amazing views. It's a hypothetical situation so it wouldn't matter that technology isn't up to par for something like this at the moment so I think over the school is a more fun idea.

How would there not be crashes? It'd be rigged up like a road and the hover pads would have sensors in the to tell when to stop and let another pad pass. For the on land part there would be a seperate path for the pads next to where people are walking so you wouldn't have to worry about hitting a pedestrian.

Weight restriction. I realized that people travel in groups to lectures and tutorials so there would have to be an option for more people. Maybe there could be room for 4 people max but then it would be large and I want to keep the design of it quite small and contained