Absolutely. People are super confused about this. The reporting wasn't very good and you have to look beyond it. The original idea is - little 16 person passenger pods with bikes, wheelchairs, and luggage. $1 fare. - possibly sleds for cars - you can stack tunnels (think of them as car lanes in 3D), so you can have 20, 50 or 100 lane highways - you make lane changes autonomously, so the subway pods can have different destinations - it's all electric so there isn't poisonous engine exhaust This is just people boarding a bus, the throughput is super high. Even sled loading can be pretty fast, imagine replacing 20 street parking spots with sled elevators. Then accelerated to 100 mph, that too is a lot of throughput. Here's the pod part of the Boring company talk. It's worth watching to see what they are proposing. ▶ this video Elon and company got excited that they built a tunnel, which is a real achievement. So they drove a Tesla through it. The media knows what you want, which is max outrage, so they reported that the 1% will get tunnels with their Teslas. You will be stuck in gridlock behind a diesel truck. They should not have driven a Tesla through it, it was a PR blunder. Here is a Heathrow pod experiment: [link]
in “Boeing’s Flying Car Has Taken Off” · View on HN