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Maybe I'm missing something, but won't these tunnels be used by Tesla cars exclusively?So they have ditched the idea of skates now, but haven't answered some important questions.
- What happens when you have cars that can't do 127 MPH in the tunnel?
- Can human drivers reliably steer down a tunnel that narrow at very high speed?
- What happens when someone has a blow-out at 127 MPH in a tunnel only wide enough for 1 car?
- What happens when parts fall off a car or something lobs their trash out the window?
- Presumably they now need a much more powerful HVAC system to extract emissions from fossil cars, and eliminating that was one of the big cost savings they planned, so has the cost gone up now?
- Is the capacity going to be as high as with skates, given that computer control of individual cars is supposed to decrease necessary safety gaps?
This also means that they have abandoned the idea of the driver being able to relax during the journey, as now they need to actively drive.
Hopefully they will present their new model soon.
Maybe I'm missing something, but won't these tunnels be used by Tesla cars exclusively?
I think that's the whole point of it. Encouraging people into Teslas. Maybe it will accept other EVs but there's no way this project is designed for ICE vehicles or anything other than Autopilot as a minimum. Maybe others if they agree to use Tesla tech.?I don't know, is that he plan? Build a special tunnel just for Tesla cars?
I can't see that proposal getting very far, it won't be worth Tesla paying for it and obviously no city or business is going to pay for a tunnel that only accepts Teslas.
I don't know, is that he plan? Build a special tunnel just for Tesla cars?
I can't see that proposal getting very far, it won't be worth Tesla paying for it and obviously no city or business is going to pay for a tunnel that only accepts Teslas.
This has got to be just a test setup for things like smoothing the tunnel floor and to get some publicity. It looks like they just used a macadam surface over the concrete.
Don't see what the point to all this is. There's no way a public tunnel is going to use Tesla cars on Autopilot for a very large set of reasons. I'm pretty doubtful that any vehicle relying on purely automatic steering will be allowed, for that matter. The point to the guide wheels was positive control. Driving on a macadam surface at 127 mph is hardly something that needs to be tested either.
If the sled idea is going to be dropped, the only way it would make sense would to use autonomous EVs and I can't see Boring Co allowing anything other than Teslas or other vehicles using their tech. By all means prove me wrong.
So they have ditched the idea of skates now, but haven't answered some important questions.
- What happens when you have cars that can't do 127 MPH in the tunnel?
- Can human drivers reliably steer down a tunnel that narrow at very high speed?
- What happens when someone has a blow-out at 127 MPH in a tunnel only wide enough for 1 car?
- What happens when parts fall off a car or something lobs their trash out the window?
- Presumably they now need a much more powerful HVAC system to extract emissions from fossil cars, and eliminating that was one of the big cost savings they planned, so has the cost gone up now?
- Is the capacity going to be as high as with skates, given that computer control of individual cars is supposed to decrease necessary safety gaps?
This also means that they have abandoned the idea of the driver being able to relax during the journey, as now they need to actively drive.
Hopefully they will present their new model soon.
The problem that I have is that autopilot/full autonomy is not 100% identical each drive. So without skates we could infer that the car will vary quite a bit on the trajectory through the tunnel without a manual buffer. I wonder how they will overcome this.
Well presumably they are going to build public tunnels, so what is the point to a system that only works with privately owned Teslas?Boring Company's initial projects are not public tunnels.
I'm very doubtful that cities will give up public land, even underground, for a system that only works for private vehicles made by one company. If a company builds a parking garage on their own land, that's one thing, if a city allows them to build a garage under a public park, for instance, it's not likely to be a private lot only for the company's employees. Public outcry would be huge in most cities.
I think if the venture causes no detriment to the land above (no cutting off water mains, tree roots, cellers, etc), then an easement can easily be purchased, either form the city or the private. And it's almost free money for the landowner of the surface to allow someone to burrow under them. Landlord Smuckatelly of the West side apartment complex isn't planning on digging down, after all.
Yeah but then every other manufacturer is going to want their private tunnels too.
And? There is plenty of space everywhere, because it's not just one plane to work with. You could go lower if you want the same route, or offset. The tunnels wouldn't intersect, or block one another.
Great, and when they wall want to emerge downtown, what are you going to do then? Have 20 different tunnel entrances clogging up the roads that the peasants who can't afford the tunnels have to use?