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Beats me. I'm really interested in seeing it in person. It could be 60 cars per hour, or 240. Either one seems plausible, just a matter of how often the next on

Beats me. I'm really interested in seeing it in person. It could be 60 cars per hour, or 240. Either one seems plausible, just a matter of how often the next one is sent on its way, and what the queuing system is like. If the endpoints can keep up with enqueuing and dequeuing the cars, then you could stuff 12 cars a minute on there (720 c/h) and have a 5 second following distance. I bet you're right, though. At least on this initial build out.

astrodust 8y ago
If this tunnel is working using the "skateboard" concept then you'll need a certain number of those on hand, plus some kind of turn-around system to get people on and off of them. Unless you had a massive staging and unloading area, 12 vehicles per minute is completely impossible. I think your low-end estimate is much more reasonable. I also think if people are manually driving cars it's only a matter of months until there's a spectacular crash in the tunnel because some idiot thought they could drive up the wall at speed or something.