See some of the world's fastest transportation breakdowns at lightning speed. Find out how each form of transportation failed, the basic engineering missed during construction, and what engineers learned from their mistakes.

Push and pull : Beach's pneumatic transit system -- Whoosh! : the moving sidewalk -- Liftoff! : Samuel Langley's aerodrome -- The unsinkable sinker : the Titanic -- Big balloons : the zeppelin -- Floating on air : the aérotrain -- Jet-setter : the Concorde -- Lemon in the sky : the flying Pinto -- Beep beep : Dickmanns's self-driving car -- Watch your head! : Transit elevated bus.