A company called SkyTran is developing a new transportation system for big cities and hopes to one day revolutionize how we get around town.
Using a network of elevated rails, small pods would be magnetically levitate and whisk passengers around the city like a taxi.
« The next big innovation is going to be in automated transit, » says John Cole, SkyTran CTO and director. « Transportation will just recede into the background of lives, as something that just happens automatically. I think about where I want to go, tell a computer where I want to go and it just takes me there — seamlessly. »
The company is planning a demo in Tel Aviv which should be completed later this year. If approved, it’ll build 20 kilometers of track in that city within three years.
Can you see something like this around Montreal?
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