The fact that The Boring Company spends its efforts trying to build another iteration of a personal rapid transit system [1] as opposed to trying to win contrac

The fact that The Boring Company spends its efforts trying to build another iteration of a personal rapid transit system [1] as opposed to trying to win contracts for tunneling projects makes me think that they actually value their not-mass transit system design more than actually building better tunnels for existing systems. This is reinforced by the fact that the few times they have bid for transit proposals (e.g., the Chicago O'Hare express route), they're explicitly proposing noncompatibility with existing transit systems. And also the fact that the main way they seem to be trying to achieve cheaper tunneling principally by making smaller diameter tunnels rather than actually improving the ability to make tunnels similar to existing tunnels more cheaply. [1] Amusingly, I think the Las Vegas one the company built may be the first PRT system to not be automated. For a guy who keeps touting futurism, failing to achieve similar capabilities to antecedents from 50 years ago is pretty ironic.