San Francisco trip today

Finally, I went on the cable car in San Francisco today! Did you know that the cable car runs without any fuel, it's electromechanical. There is a cable underneath the pavement which is constantly moving and the movement comes from the sheaves in the cable center plant which look like large turbines that move the cable.



Apparently, San Francisco is like one of the only cities in the world that has the transit system using cable cars, every other city uses streetcars and buses and other transit. Me and a couple of PARC interns went to downtown San Francisco where we went to the cable car museum and experienced a windy road, and went on the cable car. Pictures (more to come) are on Flickr, and were taken with a Palm Zire 71 camera and a Motorola RAZR v3 (sorry if they look blurry!)