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This is the dumbest thing I've seen him produce. Reliable rapid public transit is better in dozens of ways.
by accountyaccount 9y ago
This is the dumbest thing I've seen him produce. Reliable rapid public transit is better in dozens of ways.
- Analemma_ 9y ago... except in the crucial way of "getting people to buy more Teslas", which is the metric Musk is most concerned about.
- tetrep 9y agoWell, Tesla is getting into the large vehicle industry, so it's not crazy to think they'd make autonomous vehicles for public transit if there was a market for it.
- Spivak 9y agoYeah, proposing a massive engineering and infrastructure effort with an insane upfront cost in order to be the exclusive provider of the commodity trains for a few years until other manufacturers lobby for manufacturing rights is the real business venture here.
- kiba 9y agoI don't know. It looks like a public transit system to me.
- accountyaccount 9y agoa public transit system... that requires a car
- susi22 9y agoIt doesn't. It's shown in the video.
- Spivak 9y agoAnd worse in others. This at least has the advantage that people might actually want to use it since it's zero latency and you have your car for local driving.
- ceejayoz 9y agoEurope and Japan seem to have solved that problem with public transit.
- accountyaccount 9y agoIf you think this is zero latency you're out of your mind. People can't merge or parallel park without causing traffic on normal streets and you think they'll be able to do it on elevators?