If you live in a busy metropolitan area, you will experience endless stretches of soul-crushing traffic jams during Thanksgiving.
The same traffic jams, except underground, are what the fans of the company want.
TheTesla Silicon Valley Club wrote on their account that the reality is insane and that it hasn't been solved. Thank you for the efforts of The Boring Company to remove hours of lives missed from sitting in traffic.
summon Musk himself.
He wrote that it was either traffic forever or tunnels. He said to try the first operational tunnel in Vegas at the convention center.
The post was dumb because it was unclear how expensive underground tunnels would solve the problem. Public infrastructure changes, whether above or under the ground, and meaningful investments in public transportation are required to reduce the number of cars on the road.
The Boring Company has been a letdown. The original vision of the Las Vegas Tunnel was to have high-capacity Pods that could carry large groups of people underground at high speeds, but that has been watered down to the point where individual cars are having to line up to take small groups of visitors to their destination.
One user wrote that more space for cars doesn't fix the problem. Electric cars are not able to fix this. You have to give people an alternative to driving.
The city planner said that a tunnel for cars wouldn't fix it. Neither will better cars.
Pricing mechanisms that charge the full costs of driving are the only things that could be done. Neither of which Musk is selling.
The solution was invented over a century ago with the advent of the subway. Conventional aboveground trains are better at reducing congestion.
The US is facing one of the stickiest conundrums of the day: the appetite for investing in a sufficiently spread out rail system isn't huge in the US, meaning that the country's obsession with cars is far from over.
The original vision of The Boring Company was a high capacity network of underground Pods, but we have yet to hear any concrete plans to make those a reality.
The Boring Company just got approval for a plan to connect the Las Vegas Convention Center with major hotels and the airport underground, which could have an effect on reducing the city's road congestion.
Musk isn't in the business of encouraging people to leave their vehicles behind. He is selling them on the idea of having their own electric car, which will inevitably get stuck in traffic during the holiday season.
Americans are doomed to get stuck in apocalyptic traffic jams year after year if governments don't invest in public transportation.
More on the Boring Company, where employees are told to tell people he is awesome.
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