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Seth Hollar, associate director of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NC State and co-visionary behind the EcoPRT rail system, envisions that  automated fiberglass cars will be used to transport people between Centennial and Main Campus in the future. “It will solve the problem of focusing on extremely small and lightweight vehicles, so if you need to build infrastructure, for example bridges, its lightweight and small form factor make it much less expensive than traditional solutions to move people around,” Hollar said. 

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Seth Hollar, associate director of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NC State and co-visionary behind the EcoPRT rail system, envisions that  automated fiberglass cars will be used to transport people between Centennial and Main Campus in the future. “It will solve the problem of focusing on extremely small and lightweight vehicles, so if you need to build infrastructure, for example bridges, its lightweight and small form factor make it much less expensive than traditional solutions to move people around,” Hollar said. 

Seth Hollar, associate director of the Engineering Entrepreneurs Program at NC State and co-visionary behind the EcoPRT rail system, envisions that  automated fiberglass cars will be used to transport people between Centennial and Main Campus in the future. “It will solve the problem of focusing on extremely small and lightweight vehicles, so if you need to build infrastructure, for example bridges, its lightweight and small form factor make it much less expensive than traditional solutions to move people around,” Hollar said. 

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