Cable Car

A rail-guided transit mode in which cars are hauled along a fixed route by a continuously moving cable running beneath the street at constant speed, gripped and released through an onboard clamp called a grip rather than powered individually. Cable-hauled railways trace to the early nineteenth century, and the mode became a familiar feature of hilly cities worldwide before electric traction largely displaced it; San Francisco keeps the last traditional manually gripped street system in daily service, while smaller automated cable-hauled people movers now serve airports and city centers elsewhere. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/