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Racing at 127mph under a tunnel in LA [video]
- tomericco 7y agoIf the first traffic light was green, the difference is actually insignificant :/
- iamtheworstdev 7y agoKind of the point, isn't it? No lights in the tunnel. And the difference gets far more significant as you build a line tunnel.
- sshb 7y ago3mins difference is already not significant :)
- b_tterc_p 7y agoLower time variance is almost better than lower mean time.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoTerrifying single-lane tunnel. A moment of inattention and instant fireball. Outside a video game, is anybody going to do better than 40mph in a tunnel?
- michaelt 7y agoGiven that Musk has both Tesla Autopilot and Hyperloop, I don't think people manually driving in the tunnels is his endgame.
- ryandvm 7y agoMan, I hope the endgame isn't "Apple-style" highway infrastructure that require you to have a Tesla to use the Tesla-Ready® roads/tunnels...
- nkrisc 7y agoIt's most likely autopilot driving, not the person.
- b_tterc_p 7y agoWhen I first heard about the boring company I understood that they were planning to make electric sleds sort of like a car wash so you don’t have to steer and didn’t propel entirely from your own engine. Later reports made me think this wasn’t the case. This video makes me think my earlier understanding was correct. It doesn’t look like the person is steering (and it would be quite dangerous to require them to). So how does this work?
- seszett 7y agoIt's a Tesla, so I imagine they are steering it using the autopilot system.
- humantiy 7y agoWhen you're the only one in line for the tube of course its fast. What happens when there is a line of cars also wanting to use it? Still cool to see.
- kwhitefoot 7y agoLighten up people, it's just a bit of fun!
- ryandvm 7y agoI do think these high-capacity, self-driving-only tunnels are a great idea in dense areas, but the tunnels and the self-driving bits are the easy part. The hard part is going to be the "vehicular multiplexing" that will be required on both ends to take a dozen or so lanes of traffic and squeeze them down into a single, compact, non-stop stream of vehicles through the tunnel. Otherwise, if you can't get ultra-high utilization out of these tunnels than they're really nothing more than a subterranean version of taking your personal helicopter to work.
- pxtail 7y agoI'm always perceiving this tunnels initiative as a testing ground for tech which could be potentially used on Mars mission. Let's be real, for commuting purposes in big cities it will be terribly inefficient and it makes almost no sense at all.