Slip Coaches: Back When British Express Trains Detached Passenger Cars at Speed

The flight path of landing planes is often directly over my home. How many times I have wished during the final approach that I could hop in an personal landing pod or sky dive out, landing in my driveway, than take the extra hour or so that is required to deplane, get to transportation, and drive home... Slip air travel anyone? :)

The Aramis PRT system of the 70s was intended to do this with individual or 4 seat cars, accelerating and decelerating to make trains. But the control systems of the time weren't quite up to it.

...But could you match a platform to a slipcoach's velocity?

I always figured the solution to this problem was buses. Take a bus and drive it alongside the running train, then merge it sideways into a C-shaped train car frame that accepts it and lifts it up. Now the bus is just another train car. At another point along the route, it can be set down, and un-merge back out again, and ply the streets again.

They used to do this India till at least 15 years ago.

Splitting for different destinations also seems useful. If one is to walk the transfer time must be that of the slowest passengers. I lose 2 times 20 min like that twice per day.

There is no reason this can't be done for modern rail systems. It would greatly improve efficiency and time schedules. But alas, innovation in rail has been very incremental (HyperLoop aside), and practically non-existent in the States.