Elimination of bouncing, weaving, pitching in high speed passenger transit systems

2021 
Travel over gravel packed tracks at increased speed has historically been made uncomfortable by track induced bouncing, weaving and pitching. Furthermore, when essentially identical trains travel over tracks at equal speed, the tracks become increasingly wavy, and the train rides become increasingly unstable. While the train wheel assemblies are physically forced to follow the wavy tracks, the suspension springs can be overridden so that wavy motions are not passed upwards to the passenger compartments. This is accomplished with a computer controlled physical bypass of the springs. Through instrumentations, the computer reads wave lengths and amplitudes of snaking tracks, offsets them by half a wave length and instructs physical spring bypasses to respond in equal measures, thus cancelling out the wavy motions.
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