SkyPod Despite many advances in technology, the elevator has not changed in over 150 years: a single cab hoisted up an and down in an otherwise empty shaft. This shaft is one of the most expensive, underused and inefficient pieces of real estate in the world. At street level and below ground, as soon as a taxi cab or underground train passes, the next follows on its tail. These are looped transportation systems -- multi-directional, adaptable and super-efficient. Why shouldn’t elevators behave the same way? SkyPod is a research project that achieves this. With the advent of autonomous vehicles, a transport revolution is poised to radically transform the way we move within our cities. SkyPod leverages these advances and extends them vertically to achieve a three-dimensional urban mobility p

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