All this stuff does not solve the simple problem of moving the people to the rails to begin with. Living in Germany, i can get onto an ICE and tear through the

All this stuff does not solve the simple problem of moving the people to the rails to begin with. Living in Germany, i can get onto an ICE and tear through the country at 280 km/h at any time (usually with huge delays though). But often people still don't, for a few reasons which will be true for any technology, replacing the standard trains. One reason is, that transportation is always a door to door problem and if the transport from and to the train stations sucks, the whole system will not be used. Who wants to deal with changeovers from buses to trains all the time, if those have horrible working hours, constant delays or long waiting times? The whole public transport system must be comprehensive, always available, reliable and fast. Being partially fast solves nothing.