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High buses/trains with spectator seating for watching lectures/performances/movies while riding them

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Povilas S
Povilas S Sep 28, 2022
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Two-story size (or higher) bus or a train wagon that has no partition between floors, instead, the whole vertical space is used to install spectator seating. In the front of the vehicle, there's a mini stage for lectures, performances, and other types of events or/and a screen for watching videos.
Why?
  • It's cool.
  • It's a solution to this challenge.
  • The placing of the seats in vehicles is almost exclusively horizontal. This takes away the possibility to conveniently use the space in front for entertainment/education of the passengers. I haven't found anything similar to what I'm proposing online.
  • This would be perfect for city sightseeing buses that drive around and play a recorded talk about famous places/objects on the way. You could have a real or a holographic (since it's hard and dangerous to maintain balance standing while the vehicle moves) lecturer talking and pointing to places/objects behind the bus windows. You could have a continuous window without any partitions on both sides of the bus for a better view.
  • Entertainment for passengers on longer intercity or even international travels. Especially convenient on trains where you could have one wagon dedicated to this.
How it works:
All the spectator-passengers should wear seatbelts all the time while the vehicle is moving to avoid accidents. If necessary, specialized structures to hold the spectators in place (like on amusement rides) could be used.
Movies would be the easiest thing to implement, but the most boring one. The best would be to enable spectators to watch live lectures/performances. But as I already mentioned, the problem with this is that it's dangerous to stand and lecture/perform while the vehicle is moving. A lecturer could sit, but that would reduce the impact of the speech. Therefore I think a good solution to this is holographic lecturers/performers. The holograms could be broadcasted live, the technology for high-quality, live holograms is already well developed. The projector would stabilize the hologram according to the vehicle's movements.
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A tweak: travel companies should hire stand-up comedians to entertain their passengers

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Subash Chapagain
Subash Chapagain Sep 28, 2022
Extending on the presented idea, I suggest that rather than other forms of presentation, stand up comedy should be used by travel companies. Why? -The chances that all people within a vehicle will agree to watch a particular movie are low, and it will create some conflict. -Other intellectually demanding content (documentaries/lectures) might further make the travel boring. People would not want to add to their boredom. Hence, there should be some on-the-go stand-up comedy performances that will help people make their journey fun and interesting. This idea can work much better in trains and aeroplanes.
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Povilas S
Povilas S2 years ago
Yes, when it comes to long-distance travel, trains are the best for this - simply have one dedicated wagon and let passengers come and go whenever they want, announce when and what kind of performances start and end. Whoever wants comes, whoever doesn't, can stay in their wagon.
But the types of performances could also be announced in advance on the company's ticket booking website. For spectator buses, you could have tickets available only online, so that there would be no dissatisfied passengers after it. Put the description of the performance and short introductory trailers online that people could watch before buying the ticket to get an impression.
Another solution for buses - provide noise-canceling headphones to each passenger and install a screen in front of each seat - if you really don't like the performance, just turn on some music or watch Netflix instead.
Regarding airplanes - to my knowledge, two-story planes are rare. It would likely not be worthy for the manufacturers to make more vertical space to allow spectator seating in planes.
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Marco Agudelo
Marco Agudelo2 years ago
I liked it. In these videos you may see how to strategically set foot on ground to ease the performance while the bus is moving. The idea of adequate public transport to perform can be an alternative for urban artists as well for professional artists. From the point of view of laboring, it is classified as the risk of the activity (I imagine each country have their resume, but here is a brief international )and considering you can be classified to perform risk activities on your work, as climbing on electric towers or other high risk structures, I believe can be arrange it to perform art on moving vehicles as working activity. Your idea of the hologram sounds good too, and I think it could be useful too for non-labour hour time.

[1]https://youtu.be/amMU-VLkNIE?t=41

[2]https://youtu.be/LzXJ_M_60W4?t=93

[3]https://youtu.be/F5OSplalHx8

[4]https://youtu.be/EXUC8qOrBjk

[5]International Labour Standards on Occupational Safety and Health, https://www.ilo.org/global/standards/subjects-covered-by-international-labour-standards/occupational-safety-and-health/lang--en/index.htm

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Povilas S
Povilas S2 years ago
Marco Agudelo I think the problem of safety of live, standing speakers while the vehicle is moving should be best dealt with by installing some safety rails/handles to lean and hold on to. I wouldn't risk the speakers/performers doing it without protective elements - people who engage in risky professions are always provided with means to increase safety (if you climb electric towers you tie yourself to prevent falling). But yes, the maintaining of balance could be a part of the performance and the performer's work. With speakers, it's a bit different.
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Marco Agudelo
Marco Agudelo2 years ago
Povilas S Yes, safety could be improved without hesitation. With the given example I was just approaching the feasibility of your idea. If it is assembled scenarios to public transport then safety measures would be considered too.
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Subash Chapagain
Subash Chapagain2 years ago
The idea is cool. However, I see few problems: a) For short commutes, this is almost not feasible. Stops too frequent, and people change frequently. However, for longer travels, this indeed is a viable idea. Still, b) How do we decide what kind of lecture/performance/movie to offer? If we could address this, it looks like a nice feature for any longer forms of travel.
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Povilas S
Povilas S2 years ago
Subash Chapagain Yes, in my view, such seating design would be useful for city tour buses (you could have a real or a holographic guide in front of the audience talking and showing things around) and for lengthy intercity or international travels, I didn't intend it to be for short distance commuting.
About what performance to choose - good question. There could be dedicated staff members of the bus/train companies responsible for making and updating the repertoire. They'd invite speakers/performers according to what topics are "on the wave". This would depend on which geographic location the travels take place, what kind of passengers are usually taking that bus/train, etc.
One can find topics that would be interesting to almost anyone. For example, - covid related topics during the pandemic (now less relevant, but extremely relevant during the first wave), East-West tensions during the war in Ukraine (still relevant). And even independently from time, topics like "how to achieve your goals faster", so-called popular psychology topics. One can get inspiration for the repertoire by reviewing the most watched/upvoted TED talks.
If it's a long journey, there could be a few different talks/performances during it. It's especially convenient when it comes to trains, cause you can have a wagon dedicated specifically to this. The staff would announce the schedule of lectures/performances to passengers and let them come and go just like in a theatre or lecture room.
There would be a description of the performance/lecture/movie next to the ride on the site through which you book a ticket, if you didn't mind which exact hour (or even day) to arrive at your destination, the type of performance on the vehicle would likely influence your decision about which bus/train to take. The price of the ticket would also depend on the type of performance.
Also, the staff could suggest a few options for a movie/lecture/performance on a specific ride and get the to-be passengers vote online on which they want to see the most.
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