If the efficiency claims are true, it's pretty awesome.
There is a lot of public transportation that fails to be more efficient than cars because it is high-latency, failure prone, and doesn't handle peak and off-peak demand well.
Imagine replacing Boston's Green Line with a system like this. Always a pod to take you to whichever branch you want to go, now.
What that statistic misses is the fact that the pods only cover the last mile between medium-term parking and the terminal. Users still have fro drive all the way to Heathrow to tai advantage of the cost savings (and drive past the terminal for anther mile to park and get the pod back again). Meanwhile the overpriced 'short stay' parking sits half empty.
There is a lot of public transportation that fails to be more efficient than cars because it is high-latency, failure prone, and doesn't handle peak and off-peak demand well.
Imagine replacing Boston's Green Line with a system like this. Always a pod to take you to whichever branch you want to go, now.