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Because that’s hugely inefficient compared to a subway network. I live in Paris, France. 100% of its inhabitants have at least one of the 300+ subway stations
by hk__2 10y ago
Because that’s hugely inefficient compared to a subway network.
I live in Paris, France. 100% of its inhabitants have at least one of the 300+ subway stations under 1 km (0.6 miles) of their home. The subway system transports 5M people every single day. That’s twice the city population. That’s also 1.9B per year. During the peak hours you can have up to one train every 90 seconds for a capacity of 700 people each.
- bb88 10y ago> Because that’s hugely inefficient compared to a subway network. I live in Paris, France. 100% of its inhabitants have at least one of the 300+ subway stations under 1 km (0.6 miles) of their home. That's actually pretty awesome, but you may have noticed that Americans don't really care about efficiency. Once the tunnel is built, you can put anything you want into it. But I suspect we would still choose cars over trains.
- Caprinicus 10y agoPeople in general don't care about efficiency, and it's not even irrational. Transportation planning tends to treat people as little AI zergs that are going to take the most collectively efficient route to their individual destination. It's best to have a system that's as agnostic to how people want to get where they're going as possible, but I have no idea whether tesla's idea is good.
- robocat 10y agoParis isn't on top of the San Andreas faultline!
- glenneroo 10y agoElon already responded to this concern: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/824300186834898945 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/824300186834898945