Google gave the Shweeb $1,000,000.

Tom Scott
Tom Scott
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Published 2023-02-06
At Velocity Valley in Rotorua, New Zealand, there's the Shweeb: a pedal-powered monorail. It's a fun ride: but in 2010, Google gave it a million dollars as a potential "future of transit". ▪ Thanks to Velocity Valley: velocityvalley.co.nz/

SOURCES:
web.archive.org/web/20091109051951/http://shweeb.c…
web.archive.org/web/20081012033535/http://www.proj…
web.archive.org/web/20120506113239/http://www.goog…
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-03-27/whateve…
www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/business/13…
www.businessinsider.com/google-human-monorail-shwe…

Camera: Rakaea Te Rangi-Trotman
Producer: Virginia Wickham at Kevin & Co www.kevinandco.co.nz/

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