Comments by "seneca983" (@seneca983) on "Elon Musk ACTUALLY built this Loop Extension!" video.

  1. If he starts drilling from both ends he can do it in 250!
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  2.  @pt8306  I don't quite agree. I do agree that in cities it makes sense to increase the share of public transit, walking, and biking of all trips made. However, cars will still likely play a part. Self-driving cars are not a silver bullet but they can likely still be useful. They can e.g. allow car users to more easily also use public transport. A self-driving car can drop you off at a railway station or a bus stop and drive elsewhere. If you're driving the car yourself you can't all that easily do something like that. Developing self-driving cars doesn't come at the expense of investing in public transit.
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  3. I think that autonomous vehicles can eventually become safer than human drivers but it might still take a long while before we get there.
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  4. "At a kilometer per year, I expect Musk's tunnel to reach Los Angeles in about the year 2450." But he can start drilling from both ends so it can be finished in half the time!
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  5.  @andrewfranklin4429  "they are still optimising it. It will get faster" There's no guarantee of that. Other tunnel borer makers have also been developing their machines for a long time. If there was an easy way to make them faster without significant downsides it would likely have been done already. It's not implausible that The Boring Company could come up with some improvements but earth-shattering ones (pun intended) are not super likely.
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  6. Doesn't Waymo have autonomous cars in some places?
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  7. Also consider that driverless metros have existed since the early '80s.
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  8.  @AveragePicker  The first fully driverless metro is from 1981. It's somewhere in Japan but I forget where.
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  9.  @AveragePicker  "what’s your point?" I just gave a bit of extra info. That's it.
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