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> It's traffic that is completely below ground which means that no streets above are burdened with it, it's all electric so no emissions So are modern subways.
by guax 1y ago
> It's traffic that is completely below ground which means that no streets above are burdened with it, it's all electric so no emissions
So are modern subways. Cost is a major point tho, subways are designed to move waaaaay more than 30k people a day for much less, but costs of building are much higher.
This is only 1.7 miles and a novelty, I would not know If the differences hold for Tesla on other places or when scaling up. My suspicious is that it does not.
I also wonder that if you use the same tunnel they did but modify the cars to run by themselves using traditional techniques, would the operation get cheaper but the shortcomings be more glaring.
- DoesntMatter22 1y agoVegas now has 5 stations and is 2.2 miles. Can you realistically compare it to a billion dollar a mile sub at line that would take a decade to build (or more)? 30k a day is a nearly a million a month and costs are low by comparison (no expensive subway cars etc).
- Larrikin 1y agoThis is nothing compared to Tokyo Metro, or even the New York subway. Stop comparing failures to other failures like they are successes.
- DoesntMatter22 1y agoYou are comparing the Vegas loop to a tunnel in Tokyo the biggest metro on earth. That's like saying a car is slow because it's not a spaceship.
- Larrikin 1y agoCan you cite that Tokyo is the biggest metro?
- DoesntMatter22 1y agoWhen I say metro I'm talking about metropolitan area not the subway. Tokyo has 37 million people so it's comical to compare it las vegas which has less than 700k. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities