Personal Automated Transit becomes reality

I found a slashdot article about personal automated transportation systems becoming reality. This year 2 systems will be created, one in Heathrow airport, London, and the other in the United Arab Emirates.

You should link out the slashdot article and read all about it. The websites have nifty video feeds as well.

These things are already created and working on a real test track.

How exciting!

The science fiction of yesterday is the reality of today.

I always thought that the infrastructure costs would be prohibitive, but I suppose implementing it in high traffic areas such as airports, on a smaller scale first, is a completely achievable goal, and once the benefits are seen and can be measured the backing will be present for construction on a much larger scale.

Just imagine the possibilities...