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First off it looks like none of the demo items failed at the event, so that's a nice change.
Well that's to be expected when you set extremely unambitious requirements in the first place. In practice it'll still be a disaster one way or another because they just don't think things through. The idea of "personal public transit" suggest they want to compete with buses but don't meet any of the criteria of a public bus.
The real question is how were they faked? These demos almost never use the real production technology, they're just scripted to appear to