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The Boring Company's FAQ is actually pretty helpful in understanding why their approach is innovative. In short: Small autonomous vehicles instead of big subwa
by kenneth 7y ago
The Boring Company's FAQ is actually pretty helpful in understanding why their approach is innovative.
In short: Small autonomous vehicles instead of big subway cars means you can change the model from one of big stations with big heavy trains that must speed up and slow down constantly to let people in and out, to one with smaller pods that go directly from a specific origin to a destination, travels mostly entirely at their top speed, never have to slow down for stops or other vehicles, etc.
Also, the tunnels for this can be smaller and therefore exponentially cheaper to dig.
https://www.boringcompany.com/faq https://www.boringcompany.com/faq
- Traster 7y agoSorry, maybe I'm missing something, but everything we know about urban planning is that large high capacity vehicles doing fixed routes are way more efficient than individual point to point travel. Cars aren't as efficient as busses, busses aren't as efficient as trains. Or to put it another way - using your logic everyone should just be flying in private jets.