4 ms·
He's either being deliberately quite dishonest or is genuinely naive in suggesting that "individualized transport" is an alternative to public transportation. A
by smcl 3y ago
He's either being deliberately quite dishonest or is genuinely naive in suggesting that "individualized transport" is an alternative to public transportation. At this point I honestly do not know, he's shown himself at times to be both.
I'd be curious what he thinks traffic in Tokyo would look like if even half of the commuters on the subway (~80k pph for each train) drove cars around the city instead. I suspect he'd then suggest that a network of new roads be built underground to alleviate this additional traffic, which may work but at that point you'd probably just be better of building some more capacity in the subway network ...
- xorcist 3y agoHis job is quite literally to sell cars. It doesn't have to make sense.
- smcl 3y agoI didn't say it doesn't make sense. I said he's either dishonest (he's just saying this sort of thing as pro-Car/Tesla PR) or he is naive (he genuinely thinks he can "fix" urban transportation).
- palata 3y agoHe is rich. He can't really have a clue about how the world actually works. That's why he is either dishonest or naive. We should just not listen to him, IMHO.
- smcl 3y agoYep I'm with you. But sadly there are plenty of true believers who will always listen to him and will generally nod along in agreement. In this case they'd hold up a picture of a packed subway car and say "wouldn't you rather be cruising along an air-conditioned Tesla?" without really suggesting about how that would work at any scale.