Comment Re:Long Overdue Use of "free space" (Score 1) 81
I guess if there was a crowd waiting for pods they could attack that...
And the second selling point for such a system in Tel-Aviv is the throughput of the system should successfully prevent the formation of a waiting crowd, ever, completely eliminating one of the suicide bomber's favorite targets: a crowded bus stop with a bus just arriving.
It remains to be seen if the system works as well as the simulations. Getting enough of the individual cars routed the right direction at the right times of day is a fascinating software problem.