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A box on wheels that became philosophy's favorite excuse to overthink murder.
means A wheeled cart or vehicle for carrying things or people, ranging from a supermarket basket on casters to an electric streetcar running on rails.
from From the verb "troll," in its old sense of "to roll or move about" — the same root that gave us trolling a fishing line slowly through water. By the 19th century "trolley" named small wheeled carts, and when streetcars drew power from an overhead wire via a little wheeled contact running along it, that wheel was the "trolley," and the name slid onto the whole car. The British "off one's trolley," meaning unhinged, likely pictures a streetcar that has jumped its wire.
- ethics test
- The trolley problem haunts every philosophy syllabus
- old name
- Named for the trolling pole touching overhead wires
- shopping cart
- Brits push trolleys, Americans push carts
- San Francisco
- Cable cars are a moving national landmark
the trolley problem — philosophical thought experiment by philippa foot (1967) about choosing to divert a trolley to kill one instead of five
san francisco cable cars — operational trolley system since 1873, still running on three lines in san francisco
memphis trolley — restored historic streetcar line reopened in 2004, runs along main street in memphis, tennessee