Driverless pods, gliding above city streets using a network of elevated guideways. This is SkyTran -- but is it the future? SkyTran wants to do away with train schedules and central stations to develop a grid system above the ground with multiple "off ramps" acting as stations where users can board pre-booked pods – a cab service for the skies. Call for SkyTran on your smart phone and a computer-controlled, magnetically levitating pod arrives. It will whisk you across the city... — CNN
SkyTran claims the pods, weighing just 300 lbs, would consume about a third of the electricity used by today's hybrid cars. And the infrastructure can be built for $10 million per mile, at least according to the CEO Jerry Sanders.
Later this year, the company plans to complete its first pilot project at the campus of Israel Aerospace Industries in Tel Aviv.
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mass transit moves mass amounts of people en mass
I don't see this replaceing rail subway or buses anytime soon
but it might be a nice last leg system in urban transit getting you from the subway station to your block, if we had transit oriented development and walk-able cities this system would not be needed.
also got to make the seats wider door to door delivery will make people even more obese.
Over and OUT
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