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The Boring Company – Elon Musk's Next Project's Vision for Future Cities

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So it's a car for your car. This seems like an obscenely expensive way to not really solve any problems. Massive underground construction plus ongoing maintenance of a million moving parts.

Just take a helicopter or something, Elon.

your existing car now becomes your luggage that gets transported with you on your trip to be used at your destination.

It lets you build a single Lane tunnel that still goes fast. It lets cars go over the speed limit. It means no need to ventilate the tunnels since the engines can be off. And finally it won't affect your EVs range.

It's brilliant!

Imagine if everyone who used the NY subway brought along with them 4600 pounds of dead weight. Who ever said anything about sustainable transport?

Yo dawg, I heard you like cars so we built a car for your car so America can spend billions creating traffic jams below ground just like we have on the surface!

It shows standalone subway type cars as well. The glass enclosed "skates".

If you look at cars as a capsule with 'out-of-network' capabilities, it is pretty interesting. You can whether bring local transportation on both side (start or end) of the railway-like network, where walking would not be possible (long distance, no other alternatives...).

In the video you have both experiences, public shared capsule (glassed bus) and private capsule (cars) and in that way, you can address both needs without providing too much stations/lifs and still able to bring access to big cities for people living in peripheral areas.

It's one solution that can make it, not the only one though, but it's a good point of view of future cities.

I'm 100% convinced this is a joke. The costs to do this are astronomical. I'll bet anyone $100 that within 6 months from today, this will be revealed to be a prank. Most likely a Nathan for You skit.

As reusable rockets were impossible... I don't think it would be easy, but completely doable and one way to go to reduce problems in big cities, especially the capsule-esque bus... Both public and private transport with the same network, it can be good! Especially if combined with autonomous drive from/to the spot and tunnels' lifts.

I would definitely be glad to work on a project like this!

It's no joke. The pit for a TBM in the SpaceX parking lot is real.

Whether it will be successful is another question.

It sure seems real but my $100 offer still stands! Anyone?

I go for you $100, see you in 6 months ;)

Especially when they buy a digging machine (still small compared to the ones I've seen near where I work), you can see it there: https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/theboringcompany/

Deal! Hopefully I won't eat my words. It just screams 'prank' to me but we'll see : )

some more here: http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-boring-company-tunn...

"Tunnel-boring is a notoriously expensive process. The Boring Company is looking to cut down costs by building a machine that can dig and place reinforcements in the wall at the same time, Musk said. Tunneling machines traditionally dig for half the time and then go back to add reinforcements, a longer and costlier process."

No one doubts he can make it cheaper and better. The question, will he make it cheaper and better enough?

damn. that's really cool. thought Elon wanted underground trains or something

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