funicular

Wow, like those funicular railways where one car acts as the counterweight for the other.

It's electric drive, not cable drive, so it's a people mover, not a funicular.

I went to Germany this year and I made a point of planning a visit to a funicular.

It has an incline elevator, not a funicular!

The big risk there would be a slab avalanche,[1] possibly triggered by the funicular's own vibrations.

The old funicular was expensive to maintain and prone to interruption by falling rocks.

Also a funicular train is driverless and unpowered, more like big elevator car than a train.

There surprising little to a typical funicular train.

To my great disappointment, the funicular we found in Freiburg am Breisgau used a counterweight instead of another car.

A cable car would take energy to counteract the lift on one side; a funicular would be very nicely counterbalanced.

For example, we saw a cool looking church at the top of one of the mountains that serve as a backdrop for the city and started going towards it. Found ourselves on a funicular climbing above the city for the price of a transit ticket.

> Tibidabo has an amusement park and a cathedralAnd a funicular!

There's one EU directive [1] that concerns "funicular railways and other installations with vehicles mounted on wheels or on other suspension devices where traction is provided by one or more cables", which "shall not apply to [...] lifts".

The sights are more stunning here, though.- We rode the funicular up to Vomero in the west which is a wealthier neighborhood, hung out in the park there, then climbed up to Castel Sant'Elmo.

Vesuvius also destroyed the funicular that the song advertised, in a later eruption.

Those are addressed in [2] which "shall apply to lifts permanently serving buildings and constructions and intended for the transport of [persons and goods] [...] serving specific levels, having a carrier moving along guides which are rigid and inclined at an angle of more than 15 degrees to the horizontal", but "shall not apply to [...] funicular railways".

Is it irrational of us to practice TDD anyway?How do we know formal methods are effective if there hasn't been a large scale study?An interesting example of this balance between research and practice came to me from learning about the construction of cathedrals, particularly the funicular system of Guadi [1].