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Elon Musk pitches 150 MPH rides in Boring Company tunnels for $1
Earlier in the evening Musk retweeted an LA Metro tweet that said it's coordinating with The Boring Company on its test and said the two will be "partners" going forward. Much of what Musk discussed about how his concept in-city Loop would work has been answered in concept videos and the company's FAQ, but he specifically said that the plan is for rides that cost a $1, and carry up to 16 passengers through hundreds of tunnels to those small, parking space-size tunnels located throughout a city.
The big problem is digging those tunnels to start with, and while part of the session included video of a speedy test run through the tunnel Musk has already dug on SpaceX property, the plan is to pick up the pace. Davis said Musk has challenged his team to match the digging pace of a snail (0.03 MPH), and get up to 1/10th of the average walking speed of a human at about 0.3 MPH -- compared to its current top speed of about 0.003 MPH.
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 19 2018, @07:31PM (3 children)
Or, bear with me here, you just might lack imagination and ingenuity.
I personally agree on the Hyperloop being overly expensive and dangerous but we humans are pretty amazing at building things that people think are impractical if not impossible.
Electric cars? No one said Musk invented those, why bitch there?
Rocket planes that can pop out of the atmosphere and re-enter across the globe are not foolish in the slightest if they can get a plane that ascends to high altitude and then hits the rockets to go sub-orbital. I'm pretty sure they would be less efficient, but maybe not wildly so.
The future of air travel is looking like electric! Use nuclear / renewable energy sources to charge the batteries and we'll clear up a LOT of air pollution along with making the efficiency less of an issue for humanity. Even then if you have a hybrid electric / rocket plane and energy costs plummet as they should, then it wouldn't be crazy expensive to take a sub-orbital flight for 4 hours instead of 16+.
Long story short, you sound like a cynic with just enough knowledge to feel confident and lacking too much to speak authoritatively.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 19 2018, @09:45PM (2 children)
We're also good at making attempts and building things and then abandoning them when they turn out to be impractical. I'm tired of the Musk worship.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday May 20 2018, @03:00AM
Well, you could always abandon it when it turns out impractical, right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 20 2018, @05:25PM
Round these parts i dont ever see Musk worship, just haters hating for no real good reason. "I hate him cause everyone likes him!" is a pretty sad bit.