wont the tunnels just get clogged with traffic? :deadjay: what am i missing here
Elon Musk Wants To Build Tunnels To Combat Traffic
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The way to combat traffic is to discourage attracting more and more drivers. Am interested in seeing his idea but that first 30 car pileup is going to be a bytch.
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http://www.thecoli.com/posts/24298863/
The article's title is somewhat inaccurate. The terminologies and capabilities are being mixed up a somewhat....but potentially merging at the same time...so who knows what accurate description for flying devices will be out there in 10 years. We could have VTOL SUVs with wheels that fold in (yes I just described Back to the Future vehicles)....its getting crazy. Also some blimp technology being looked at.
Flying Cars About to Hit the High......Skyways..:dahelljr:
Hover boards???.........we off that
These are the 3 Most Prolific Non-traditional Air Devices on the Cusp of Doing Much More as Far as Transport for Humans (and Freight/Products)
1) Drone technology
http://www.thecoli.com/posts/20118949/
2) Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) (which could basically be human seated drones that can fly hundreds if not thousands of miles. The most well known and really only seriously working VTOL is the Harrier Jet, like the one in True Lies which came out in 1994. )
Uber hires NASA aircraft engineer to help develop flying cars at Uber Elevate
Vertical Take Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicles have the potential to compete or close some airports....
3) Flying cars (traditional airplanes that can also be driven on highways, which are already legal)
http://www.thecoli.com/posts/20124757/
TECHNICALLY PLANE/AUTOMOBILES EXIST and are FAA APPROVED and by other Governments (Just a Matter of Putting them Into Production)
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And a lot of the time he's taking credit for someone else's idea.
You use tunnels or overhead bypasses as arterial thoroughfares that take you from one end of the city to another, no stops or exits. I'm talking about a dedicated road that takes you over or under a city without having to pass through it. There could be an exit and entry at the sea and air ports for trucks to drop off and load up, then proceed on their route without having to go through the city. They can jump on the tunnel or bridge bypass and join the national highway once past city limits. Also for any private vehicles that are driving long distance, this would save time and reduce extra traffic.
The streets and main roads outside of the tunnel/bridge would then only be used by locals, people who actually live in the city or people from outside who are coming in because they have something to do in the city.
In my experience I think separating commercial/industrial traffic (trucks) and private traffic would go a long way to solving the traffic problems in my city. It's too many damn trucks, we got the busiest air and sea ports in Australia handling a lot of freight. And the ports are like smack in the middle of the city, you got to travel for at least 40 miles in any direction through choked urban roads before you pass the city limits. So the roads all over the city are packed with trucks shipping Interstate. Building tunnels or bridges so they can bypass urban traffic helps us by freeing up our roads a little, probably removes at least 5 to 10% of current traffic; and helps them save the two-three hours minimum it takes to travel from the port to the city limits
The streets and main roads outside of the tunnel/bridge would then only be used by locals, people who actually live in the city or people from outside who are coming in because they have something to do in the city.
In my experience I think separating commercial/industrial traffic (trucks) and private traffic would go a long way to solving the traffic problems in my city. It's too many damn trucks, we got the busiest air and sea ports in Australia handling a lot of freight. And the ports are like smack in the middle of the city, you got to travel for at least 40 miles in any direction through choked urban roads before you pass the city limits. So the roads all over the city are packed with trucks shipping Interstate. Building tunnels or bridges so they can bypass urban traffic helps us by freeing up our roads a little, probably removes at least 5 to 10% of current traffic; and helps them save the two-three hours minimum it takes to travel from the port to the city limits
He's not fooling anyone. Hes also putting satellites in low orbit, he's planning something.
That plan is the one I want to work the most. A potential big fukk YOU to the incumbent ISPs
Musk just released photos of one of the tunnels in LA.
Elon Musk releases first image of Boring Company’s ‘freeway’ under LA
I wonder are they just overlaying current underground tunnels used by indigenous Americans, similar to the US highway and railroad system developed from established routes.
Elon Musk releases first image of Boring Company’s ‘freeway’ under LA
I wonder are they just overlaying current underground tunnels used by indigenous Americans, similar to the US highway and railroad system developed from established routes.
There has been tunnel boring going in seattle on since 2014, and there are already well estabished tunnels below the city
Tunnels to combat traffic is legit a 150+ year old concept
What tunnels are being driven around Seattle metro and how do you take them? They need tunnels from Tacoma to Everett and the 405 loop from Seatac to Lynnwood.There has been tunnel boring going in seattle on since 2014, and there are already well estabished tunnels below the city
Tunnels to combat traffic is legit a 150+ year old concept
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Yes, Musk is serious about his giant tunnel idea, and he's starting to provide details
Elon Musk’s next project may be a bit more … boring than his previous endeavors.
The founder of SpaceX and Tesla is accustomed to flashy enterprises and larger-than-life dreams (that all seem to be coming to fruition), and now, he’s turning his attention to a simple problem that plagues all of us: traffic.
Obviously, the man who conceptualized the Hyperloop has never had the patience for sitting in gridlock, and last December, the entrepreneur took to Twitter to express his frustration, and more important, his solution. “Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging…” he wrote cryptically Saturday morning. And just for good measure, he added later, “I am actually going to do this.”
To prove just how serious he really is about his new business venture, Musk even edited his Twitter bio, which now reads, “Tesla, SpaceX, Tunnels (yes, tunnels) & OpenAI.” And as we know, if it’s on Twitter, it must be true.
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Tweeting that his yet-to-be-established company would be called the Boring Company, he quipped, “Boring, it’s what we do.” Because don’t you just want to bore a hole in all the cars stuck in front of you for hours on end? Fine, maybe not through the cars themselves, but perhaps underneath them.
Digging a bunch of tunnels does hold the prospect of adding additional lanes to urban areas that can’t easily accommodate more lanes above ground. And given Musk’s track record in other areas, we can at least hope his solution is feasible.
A few months after making his initial proclamation on Twitter, the inventor is back at it with a few more details on his proposed giant tunnel. For starters, it’ll begin “across from my desk at SpaceX,” which is located near “Crenshaw and the 105 Freeway,” about five minutes from LAX. He also addressed concerns about earthquakes, noting that these natural phenomena “tend to have the biggest effect on the surface, like waves on water. That’s why LA can have a (lame, but getting better) subway.”
Ultimately, when asked if he was really serious, he responded simply, “Yup.”
So get excited, friends. We may all become mole people sooner rather than later.
Kind of genius tbh. He could make an autonomous grid underground and solve a lot of problems. End traffic, no more fatalities, no pedestrians underground, no air pollution, no noise pollution, etc
Not sure if he's even serious with this endeavor but I hope so. Instead of flying cars we'll be getting chauffeured around underground.
Genius how, they already have tunnel boring machines.
the light rail is already planning to go all the way from SeaTac to EverettThere are tunnels all the way from international district to Northgate....and will be extended
The viaduct is being demoed and will be underground from SoDo to South lake Union. Already many buses go underground for faster travel once they hit downtown...
Wtf breakthrough is this??
The light rail isn't gonna be completed until 2035-2040 and the tunnels are just a small stretch downtown.
There are tunnels all the way from international district to Northgate....and will be extended
The viaduct is being demoed and will be underground from SoDo to South lake Union. Already many buses go underground for faster travel once they hit downtown...
Wtf breakthrough is this??
I don't know what a quicker solution would be, but traffic is atrocious throughout the metro area.
I agree but thats really besides my point
"We should build tunnels to combat traffic" is not an innovation...tunnel boring is the oldest shyt ever....this shouldnt even be news considering multiple tunnels are being designed and being dug as i type.
Traffic is abhorrent here, yeah, but unless 99 is radically widened (not possible), an upper deck is added to 520 (not in our lifetime)...additional lightrails and more mass transit is the only real solution. Whether thats above ground or below is irrelevant if its a rail system. And nothing i said is innovative in anyway...even if musk says it.
IMHO the following would help seattle traffic:
- I 90 being double decker with an entire deck for busses or rail going from downtown seattle to downtown bellevue
- Multiple light rails going all the way from everett to seatac (already in process)
- The expansion of the viaduct (already in process)
- Something better than the SLUT from downtown to SLU; it should go all the way from columbia ave or to fremont...i live near the mohai stop and i never take that shyt.
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