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Cars on freeways already regularly do sub-2 second spacing. If each vehicle had 7-16 people (as TBC plans), you’d get similar to Subway capacity. Folks who dis
by Robotbeat 6y ago
Cars on freeways already regularly do sub-2 second spacing. If each vehicle had 7-16 people (as TBC plans), you’d get similar to Subway capacity.
Folks who dismiss getting subway-like throughputs haven’t actually done the math.
- welterde 6y agoThe planned capacity is however only 4400 people per hour for the CES tunnel so about 14s spacing (some other projects even lower). One train every 90s has a capacity of more than 10000 people (and that's not even rush hour with any people standing). Sub-2 second spacing is quite unlikely to be used, since stopping distance (with 0 reaction time, which is not too unreasonable with LIDAR/RADAR) dictates around 2s spacing between vehicles (1.9s at 100km/h for teslas I believe). And while humans might be fine with ignoring safety aspects computers can't and shouldn't. Nevermind that building a subway-light vehicles (more similar to a people mover) is not really the same thing as using slightly-modified Teslas as subway replacement (which is what it seems they will be using for now)..