What's more important is that SkyTran will bring new independence to millions of people who experience difficulty driving today, such as the elderly and people with vision, hearing or mild mental impairments. Even those who never ride SkyTran themselves will benefit: driving on less congested roads, breathing cleaner air and paying less in taxes.
Automated transport has a huge positive potential for people with many handicaps, such as blindness and developmental disabilities.
Visually impaired people who cross busy streets today regularly face all kinds of unknown hazards. With SkyTran, they will simply speak a destination into a microphone and speed to any destination. Adults with special needs are often denied the opportunities to enjoy work and independent leisure by the difficulty and expense of providing adequate supervised transportation. Children who need to go to specialized schools spend hours of their days on buses, not learning much of value.
SkyTran can give people in all these groups the maximum possible degree of independence. Again, SkyTran isn't just about economics or city planning. It's about millions of people having better lives.