people pod

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1. 1

   A mobile cabin that attaches to an aircraft or helicopter.

   • 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.
2. 2

   A bus-like compartment carried by a lift truck, proposed in the late 1950s for…

   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.

   • 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.
3. 3

   A driverless electric car for transporting a single person.

   • 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.
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      Any of various cars for carrying a small number of people as part of a public…

      Any of various cars for carrying a small number of people as part of a public transportation system.

      • If you believe your Sunday papers. the answer is supposed to be "people pods in pneumatic tubes."
      • 'Yeah, and conveying themselves round in those cryonic selfdrive people pods.
   2. 5

      A small chamber for a single person.

      • 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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