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There's also no fail-safe condition. If there's a power failure or control system failure, things would go horribly wrong. Having the stations be the only safe resting point is a recipe for disaster regardless of how much redundancy is built into the systems.
Yes, I was just describing one of the many myriad issues with this design. It’s clearly not done by an engineer.
It's basically a mag-lev train with extra steps. Extra being really, really dumb and pointless.