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The designers tried to make Aramis work like a "virtual train," and incorrect control software caused cars to bump very hard.

The failing system had custom-designed motors, sensors, controls, digital electronics, software and a major installation (the "CET") in southern Paris. The technology demonstration in 1970 worked.

Point-to-point travel for passengers, an essential PRT feature, was removed from the specifications around 1973 because of the extra cost of the turn outs.

Aramis was documented by Bruno Latour (born 1947, Beaune, France) is a French sociologist of science best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, describing the process of scientific research from the perspective of social construction based on field observations of working scientists. As a student... Bruno Latour in Aramis: or the Love of Technology.