Monday, August 5, 2013

Reminder - Robocars aren't PRT

A pair of thoughtful pieces on driverless cars (Driving Sideways, NY Times, 7/23; How will the driverless car affect the design of our cities? Treehugger, 7/25) are a welcome contribution to the discussion of the problematic nature of 'robocars.'

However the small size of pod transit (PRT) vehicles still serves to confuse them with driverless cars in the minds of many.

So let's reacquaint ourselves with what pod transit is and is not (chiefly):