The distance between the units in a transportation system such as railroads, freeways or this Skytran is called "headway". Headway is mainly determined by break

The distance between the units in a transportation system such as railroads, freeways or this Skytran is called "headway". Headway is mainly determined by breaking time. They say the capsules can break to 0 in just 16 meters so theoretically you could have one capsule per 20 meters or so (although I doubt that would be safe or feel comfortable). That's 20 meters for 2 passengers, which means that you need 1 km track for 100 passengers. If the Skytran really goes 250 km/h you could move something like 250*100 = 25,000 persons per hour per rail if the capsules are full, or 12,500 if they are half full. That could easily compete with cars, trains, metro systems, buses etc. But if the headway is really 100 meters, then we are down to 20 persons per km, and if the Skytran really "only" goes 150 km/h then we are transporting some 3,000 persons per hour if the capsules are full or some 1,500 if they are half full which is much less than a typical metro. If we go by one capsule per 20 meters, we would use up to 12,500 capsules per hour meaning that we would have to launch another capsule with one or two passengers from side tracks onto the main track every .29 seconds in peak hour. And they would not be launched on the track from the same end station and unloaded on the same end station but from many different stations on the track. That's a job for a programmer to figure out how that's done safely but I don't see it happening. And quite frankly, if you do have the backing of NASA and rich investors and this whole thing is so cheap and fast to build as they claim, why don't they just build a full scale version in some town somewhere? I see only animations and prototypes.