It's snarky, but misses the point. The "pod" concept has already been abandoned. The project they're currently working on in Vegas is using Teslas as rented car

It's snarky, but misses the point. The "pod" concept has already been abandoned. The project they're currently working on in Vegas is using Teslas as rented cars. What clicked it for me was seeing price comparisons between a train and a bunch of Teslas of equals capacity - they're about the same. Yes, subway trains are hugely expensive - either because they need to be, or because it's all government contracts. And Tesla is pretty much a luxury vehicle so we can easily expect an order of magnitude of decrease.