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The article says, "Musk thinks flying cars are a dumb idea"

So we're not going to get a flying version of the Tesla? Darn.

It also says, "We have skyscrapers with all these levels, and we have a flat, two-dimensional road system,” he says. “When everyone decides to go into these structures and then exits them at the same time, you’re going to get jammed.” Tunnels, on the other hand, would represent a 3D transportation network."

Now that makes some sense.




He might be a smart guy but this tunnel idea is completely idiotic.

Digging tunnels is easy. Digging tunnels that can carry vehicular traffic, that meet safety standards, that don't disrupt the buildings above them, that don't shift or collapse due to seismic faults, that don't interfere with or collide into other infrastructure is hard.

If tunnels were easy, if tunnels were the future, the clusterfuck of crazy that is the Seattle tunnel wouldn't have happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaskan_Way_Viaduct_replacemen...




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