Like a car, a SkyTran vehicle is always waiting for you at a portal when you need it. Better than a car, SkyTran's vehicles are automated so you don't have to drive. Imagine working, resting, or socializing while you go to work, go downtown, or go on vacation. What's more, once you get to where you're going, you don't have to deal with parking. Driving can be an expensive and stressful hassle, and if that's the case, people shouldn't need to drive every day. SkyTran cannot replace the thrill of driving a car. Instead it offers the entirely different thrill of hassle free travel and being independent from the obligation that comes with a car.  Here's what SkyTran's convenience might mean to a few people in the Los Angeles area today:

• Evan was elated to qualify for a senior housing unit in South Pasadena, right next to the Gold Line.  It was only after setting up house that he realized that even though the Gold Line track was just a stone's throw away, the actual Gold Line station was nearly a mile distant.  That was too far for him to walk without help.  It was particularly frustrating when the Gold Line might have taken him to see his grandkids in Boyle Heights without a single transfer.  The situation brightened, however, as the SkyTran grid reached Evan's complex.  Now, vehicles were always waiting for him at a portal practically at his front door, not thundering by on their way to somewhere just out of reach.  With SkyTran, the whole city was open to Evan once more.
• James was elated to finally get off work; he could catch up with his friends at those concerts they'd all been talking about.  There was just one problem: James didn't know whether they'd decided to hit Nokia Live or the Wiltern.  Wherever they were, they weren't getting back to his texts or voicemails with all the music thumping.  James decided to just hop in a SkyTran vehicle and take a chance.  As it cruised towards LA Live, James realized that Kim had set her privacy settings for him on the SkyTran social network to let him know where they all were.  With the "Friend" icon on the touchscreen before him blinking at Wilshire and Western, James told the SkyTran vehicle about his new destination and relaxed, knowing he would be meeting up with his friends well before the show's encore.  
• Serena didn't mind flying for her job - It was getting to and from LAX that was killer!  From her home in Torrance, the airport wasn't that far, but sometimes it seemed like an obstacle course had been put in place before she could reach that bag of peanuts.  The boss wouldn't reimburse for taxis, so that was out.  Parking her car at the airport seemed silly; it felt like the parking space at her apartment was closer to the terminals than the peripheral lots served by all those shuttles.  And the times she had tried a shared ride van, it had spent half an hour looping around in the World Way's fumes before achieving a full complement of passengers, then another hour dropping those passengers off first before it had carried her home.  She was about to start shelling out for taxis again when her neighborhood was reached not only by SkyTran, but one of the airport's new satellite terminals that the new SkyTran system had enabled.  Now she could check her bags close to home, and be whisked along with them almost all the way to her boarding gate.  Frequent flying felt fantastic after that.  

SkyTran will change expectations in terms of the convenience we expect not only in transportation, but in connecting to other people and our digital lives.  No more missing an hour's pay or worse because a bus was two minutes early.  No more shivering at a bus stop, craning your neck out for some sign of your ride.  No more fender benders, red lights, or tailgaters.   Many will still drive, but their experiences will become more convenient, as well.  SkyTran can take people off the highways and make driving fun again. SkyTran can solve congestion for everyone, not just SkyTran users.
"Convenient" might turn out to be the most modest term people apply to SkyTran. Should the system develop as planned, many may call it a godsend.