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VIDEO: Elon Musk's vision for avoiding traffic with tunnels

article published on 1 May, 2017

Mr Musk's 'Boring Company' has shown a concept video for a subterranean network of tunnels that zips cars from place to place. If you have spent time listening to Elon Musk opine, then you probably have heard him passionately complaining about traffic. The SpaceX & Tesla Motors CEO had tweeted last year that he was going to avoid traffic by getting a tunnel boring machine. Apparently, ... [ read the full article ]

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Jemborg
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_ 		2. May 2017 @ 09:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Is this what happens to visionary minds? ...that at some point they go off on some folly blowing all the cash they made on previous successes :)
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Mysttic
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_ 		2. May 2017 @ 11:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This would be insanely dangerous and expensive to create. It could not be implemented into any city currently with a dedicated underground rail. It would conflict with current transit option, and leave the poor, working poor with no vehicle of their own stranded (if they intended to replace current subway tunnels).
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Jemborg
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_ 		2. May 2017 @ 13:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm all for pneumatic tubes ah la Futurama.
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_ 		3. May 2017 @ 08:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Anyone who has driven in LA traffic has had that moment...usually it passes before buying a boring company. Maybe he will end up using the machines to make some tunnels under the parts of I5 where there are tall hills that make a Tesla say the remaining charge is only good for 5 miles.
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