I'm going to make a trip to WVA to see this thing. That is awesome and I never heard of it until I saw it on Google Maps.

I was conceived on the PRT!

Great video...thanks for filming it. If I ever get to WV I'll have to ride it!

On My first full day on campus me and a friend from my high school rode the PRT most of the morning.

We have something like this at OHare Airport in Chicago A driverless train system to go between passenger terminals

thanks for the video

I love riding on that thing!!

Glad you liked it! Everybody: it's a bit crappy in normal quality, so make sure you watch in high quality!!!!!

Wow. So cool!

Probably the closest thing to the Toronto Zoo Domain Ride, i want to ride a system like this so bad! :(

@interchange42 I know right, the whole reason why it broke down was because they didnt maintain it enough, and now they have just a bunch of old concrete girders and stations leaving me to wonder what it might have been like, really pisses me off :@ lol

Fabulous. Way for today and the future.

Great vid. I geek out over stuff like this. I've heard rumors of Disney implementing this at Disney World instead of an expanded Monorail.

Looks like an amusement ride. Needs work on it if its still running. Would be good for lots of cities if maintained enough. Ty for sharing.

Thanks! I have fixed the WVU references. Cheers!

this should run from morgantown to clarksburgh

It was a bit bumpy, but not so much as to be uncomfortable, and I think the noise was magnified by my camera doing its best to magnify whatever it could hear, as it is actually pretty quiet. I suppose it might be best described as "feeling it's 30 years" at this point. Glad you like the vid!

Those things are adorable

Jeeze -- did you get the Blair Witch cameraman to video this?

The very late and lamented Domain Ride - I wish someone would throw some money at it and bring it back!

Yes. It's run on wheels. It's enought. This vehicle is computer controlled and wheels are enought. ;) that's great! It's our future.

@Rickyrab Yeah, that's probably right.

Well, there are several projects planned, including a vast network for a proposed car-free neighborhood in Abu Dhabi, but as few there haven't have many successful applications of PRT so far, few cities are prepared to take the risk. Another problem is that relative to construction costs, the capacity of the system would be small, as each car only fits a few people. Light Rail is generally much cheaper to install and more efficient, and for very dense cities, metros are better.

Seems like it's an idea that was too far ahead of it's time. A lot of cities could use one of these now days.

that's funny and nice

...and now I'm trying to remember what I said 2 years ago that you answered "yeah, that's probably right".

Wait. Perfect video for the old song: "I'm on the PRT to HELL". damn. who sang that? Help me peoples.

this is the prototype of all PRT"S this 1 been operation sence 1975

Haha amazing fact! ;)

They just replaced the computer system this summer.

why so shaky video? the road surface is perfect, isn't it?

Jeez, there really are "splat zones" (see below} on the PRT. Anyhoo, I saw none of that going on while I was riding it...

I suppose you would have to consider that a 'splat zone'?

lol I see my car

no it is wheels

no you don't. not this one at least

Pcm I go to motown, on weekends I drive down High st. and see how many drunken idiots I can hit. You weren't one of them were you?

looks bumpy lol

Monorail! Doh!

Too old

haha ur so bored, taping the long prt ride

I know it doesn't look like it, but this was built back in the late 1960"s to early 1970's during the Nixon administration. We were advanced way back then until the liberals wanted to give everything away to people who do not deserve it and then we became voluntarily poor. We couldn't help anybody not even ourselves. Remember the malaise of the 1970's