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> The overall goal of the Boring Company is to substantially decrease the cost, and increase the speed of building tunnels. Good for it, but in the mean time a
by N_trglctc_joe 7y ago
> The overall goal of the Boring Company is to substantially decrease the cost, and increase the speed of building tunnels.
Good for it, but in the mean time a car tunnel would still have worse throughput than public transportation (less than two train's worth per day), rely on unproven technology (both for tunneling and moving the cars in a human-friendly way), and almost certainly not be financially viable (without massive subsidies).
Yes we need better public transportation, but there are well-established methods for effecting this. We just need to invest in them instead of Musk's poorly-conceived flamethrower company.
- aeternus 7y agoWhat are those well-established methods? The hyperloop was conceived by multiple SpaceX employees due to extreme disappointment with California's public transit proposal. This is from the original Hyperloop paper: > When the California “high speed” rail was approved, I was quite disappointed, as I know many others were too. How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL – doing incredible things like indexing all the world’s knowledge and putting rovers on Mars – would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world? We can do better.