One of the sketches from school, done during free time. Much work needs to be done, but this might suffice for the 17 degree decline/incline. Might be costly.
In my experience, Air Bags are the easiest way to control the ride height. This is important especially since the cabin should line up perfectly with the platform every time it pulls into the station, to allow easy access to the people with wheel chairs.
As the passenger boards the cabin, the air bags should work to counter act the weight. The sensor on the cabin, paired with the reflector of some sort from the platform should work together to provide feed back achieving the perfect ride height. The airbags could also double as dampers for the vibration generated from the tracks and the wheels.
The 2 magnetically controlled coil overs work to keep the cabin level at all times. This design as of right now rely on the gravity to do its job, but the magnetically controlled dampers would allow fast initial movement followed by stiffening to decrease/cancel the swinging of the cabin, holding it in its place. In addition, these could also keep the cabin from swinging, during acceleration and deceleration. ( At this point the maximum speed of the car is approximated at 50 mph, and the decline/incline of the tracks are understood to not exceed 17 degree angle)
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