SkyTran, now- we can all travel like the "Jetson's"

Technology never a dull moment as it were, it seems NASA has some pretty interesting ideas on the shape future travel will take, and no it doesn't include return tickets to the moon, although somewhere in a secluded spot such talks maybe happening!

Back to the here and now though, NASA it seems are green-lighting a new method for all us lovely people to travel, inside a floating pod 20ft off the ground, yea those Sci-Fi shows you watched as you grew up are in fact a reality these days, pretty scary right?

What’s scarier is perhaps the help of a company called "SkyTran" and no I know what you’re doing trying to find a connection to "SkyNet" and the machine uprising but relax that will never hap................ well let's hope not anyway. 

The concept of mono-rail travel as it is known is not a new technology parse hoverer has never really been fully realised, until now that is. Surprisingly the new commuting system is set to be implemented to begin in "get this" 2014, more likely in the US and then depending escalate across Eastern Europe. 

But wait, it gets even better, once you have access to a "SkyTran Station, you get into your pod, set your destination with a smartphone app, climb aboard and allow mag-lev which stands for Magnetic Levitation technology speed you off to your destination.

But yet again there is more, brace yourselves each pod will have the ability to travel at speeds of up to 150 mph, that means you could literally get across the UK in no time at all.

Where the funding and costs for such a scheme will come from is anyone’s guess at the moment, not to mention the actual implementation, design stages then there’s the usual approvals and safety checks etc, but this does look like the way of the Future. 

Hopefully the system will be linked to a manned computer station much like modern electric train’s with added collision detection route paths and the like, the question is would you use it and would you be happy to go at such speeds as though you were on a roller coaster each morning. 

NASA is set to install a full system in its California installation which should be interesting, let’s face it they are the experts at this kind of thing after all. SkyTran should in the long term be cheaper to build compared to train, and bus systems, will suffer little with obstacles in mid-air and is much more eco-friendly for the planet using solar panels.

So who is up for using SkyTran as a method of travel?

-Jonathan Cullen