Various Sci-Fi stories from the 20th century have something like this. It's honestly more of an improvement than private tracks for cars. For one you can fit a lot of people pods into the volume that would be occupied by an average car.
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The Boring Company's launch event for LA tunnel livestreaming now
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I have always believed everything Musk did was on order to make Total Recall a reality. Electric car, self driving car, Neuralink, space travel, underground tunnel, futuristic weapons. Mars nuking
Maybe less so, if they actually use the slow ass elevator to get cars in and out of the tunnel, because that's gonna cause traffic backs up at both ends.
what happens if people decide to open their windows in the tunnel? does the drag slowdown the car?
what if they start throwing out garbage, or worse, glass and puncture the tires of the following vehicle?
anyway... took me a while to get through everything mentioned and written in this thread... and so many comments to pick from...
Have you EVER rode a subway outside of rushhour? or left the US?
Many European Cities built their public transport networks long AFTER the US had demolished theirs. So I call bullshit on your argument.
The US has the best prerequisits for public transport: space.
so... your solution is to just build even less useful infrastructure for people to not use then?
but instead of improving it... you suggest to put all our faith in something that makes no sense right out of the gate
where does the cheaper to build claim come from?
Have you even read the article you're linking to? nothing there suggests Musk building cheaper, he isn't even mention. It just says that Europe builds at a fraction of the cost as the US. And that has NOTHING to do with what dear Elon does.
you know... like better mass transit?
Because "Mass transit isn't wanted" is a claim backed-up by nothing. Or rather, the exact opposite of what pretty much every study ever on the issue suggests.
It's kind of ironic how our two favourite shills always accuse others of being in bed with big oil, yet cling to the same rhetoric when defending their master. This stupid tunnel isn't doing anything except for cementing the status-quo for private car use. Next they're going to tell us how it's great for the environment
shh! don't you dare bring actual science into this. Can't have that in a Musk thread or Musk related topic. God knows he wouldn't bother with this stuff. He just wills it into existence
what if they start throwing out garbage, or worse, glass and puncture the tires of the following vehicle?
anyway... took me a while to get through everything mentioned and written in this thread... and so many comments to pick from...
Have you EVER rode a subway outside of rushhour? or left the US?
Many European Cities built their public transport networks long AFTER the US had demolished theirs. So I call bullshit on your argument.
The US has the best prerequisits for public transport: space.
so... your solution is to just build even less useful infrastructure for people to not use then?
but instead of improving it... you suggest to put all our faith in something that makes no sense right out of the gate
where does the cheaper to build claim come from?
Have you even read the article you're linking to? nothing there suggests Musk building cheaper, he isn't even mention. It just says that Europe builds at a fraction of the cost as the US. And that has NOTHING to do with what dear Elon does.
you know... like better mass transit?
Because "Mass transit isn't wanted" is a claim backed-up by nothing. Or rather, the exact opposite of what pretty much every study ever on the issue suggests.
It's kind of ironic how our two favourite shills always accuse others of being in bed with big oil, yet cling to the same rhetoric when defending their master. This stupid tunnel isn't doing anything except for cementing the status-quo for private car use. Next they're going to tell us how it's great for the environment
shh! don't you dare bring actual science into this. Can't have that in a Musk thread or Musk related topic. God knows he wouldn't bother with this stuff. He just wills it into existence
Yes. Not only that but large stretches of navigable space for maintenance/emergencies.
This tunnel is cheap because it's basically a death trap if anything goes wrong.
Yup. A subway car probably wouldn't fit in this tunnel and if you wanted to add a new line you'd need to fit at least two sets of tracks in said tunnel and also carve out more space for stations and emergency exits/safety stuff.
