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> travel to/from the airport and immigration, which does not change. Musk's The Boring Company is working on changing the speed of travel to the airport. Midto

> travel to/from the airport and immigration, which does not change. Musk's The Boring Company is working on changing the speed of travel to the airport. Midtown Manhattan to JFK is around 45 minutes to drive. But it's only 11 miles away. If you can travel in a straight line at 80 mph, it should only take 8.3 minutes). And rich people who buy flights like that can already take helicopters and have separate immigration/customs gates without lines and checks.

tomcam 6y ago
Moving multilane traffic on a busy route to a single tunnel will cause an enormous amount of traffic churn on each end.
- bufferoverflow 6y ago
  Nobody is talking about a single tunnel. The plan is to have a 3D network of tunnels.
  - tomcam 6y ago
    It stretches credibility to imagine such a network of tunnels could be built feasibly anywhere in Manhattan
    - bufferoverflow 6y ago
      Under Manhattan, not in.
      - sroussey 6y ago
        Hahaha. Manhattan goes underground more than it goes above in most places. Old tunnels from way back are 600ft down. Tons of other stuff too. https://cooperator.com/article/a-look-at-what-lies-beneath/full https://cooperator.com/article/a-look-at-what-lies-beneath/f...
cheeze 6y ago
So we'll use the vaporware hyperloop to get to the airport for the vaporware plane?
- nickik 6y ago
  Maybe you don't know what 'vapoware' is. Vapoware is a product that has been announced and didn't arrive after its release date. There literally has never been a product announcement around hyperloop. It was a technical paper laying out the idea, that's all. Second, you don't actually need a 'hyperloop', a 'loop' is perfectly fine. A 'loop' already exists in Nevada, and its just a tunnel with an electric car/bus/platfom inside. That isn't hyperloop fast, but you can still get up to 100+ MPH pretty easily. And the 'loop' system is Las Vegas is perfectly within its schedule plan so far. The question is just if somebody pays for these tunnels.

tomcam 6y ago

Moving multilane traffic on a busy route to a single tunnel will cause an enormous amount of traffic churn on each end.

bufferoverflow 6y ago
Nobody is talking about a single tunnel. The plan is to have a 3D network of tunnels.
- tomcam 6y ago
  It stretches credibility to imagine such a network of tunnels could be built feasibly anywhere in Manhattan
  - bufferoverflow 6y ago
    Under Manhattan, not in.
    - sroussey 6y ago
      Hahaha. Manhattan goes underground more than it goes above in most places. Old tunnels from way back are 600ft down. Tons of other stuff too. https://cooperator.com/article/a-look-at-what-lies-beneath/full https://cooperator.com/article/a-look-at-what-lies-beneath/f...

cheeze 6y ago

So we'll use the vaporware hyperloop to get to the airport for the vaporware plane?

nickik 6y ago
Maybe you don't know what 'vapoware' is. Vapoware is a product that has been announced and didn't arrive after its release date. There literally has never been a product announcement around hyperloop. It was a technical paper laying out the idea, that's all. Second, you don't actually need a 'hyperloop', a 'loop' is perfectly fine. A 'loop' already exists in Nevada, and its just a tunnel with an electric car/bus/platfom inside. That isn't hyperloop fast, but you can still get up to 100+ MPH pretty easily. And the 'loop' system is Las Vegas is perfectly within its schedule plan so far. The question is just if somebody pays for these tunnels.