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Re:Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring by namelost on Saturday December 16, 2017 @10:31AM (#15939927)
Tunnels are dangerous. Elon is proposing to build really narrow tunnels that are hard to evacuate and then allow every random vehicle inside it. Yes it's on a sled but who is certifying that my fellow tunnelgoers' vehicles won't leak fuel, spontaneously catch fire, or find some other special way to kill me?

Elon has some good ideas and some stupid ideas, this is of the latter category.

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Re:Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring by jacquesm on Saturday December 16, 2017 @11:37AM (#15940233)
Switzerland has a couple of tunnels in operation that have short haul trains running through them that you drive your car onto. They don't check what kind of cars are on the train, as long as they fit you're good.
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Re:Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring by shafyy on Saturday December 16, 2017 @04:53PM (#15942362)
Yes, but those tunnels are not as narrow as Musk suggests and have good ventilation and an emergency exit every 100m or so. Source: Swiss that used the said tunnel multiple times.
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Re:Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring by Buttes on Saturday December 16, 2017 @01:30PM (#15940932)
You also need hardcore vent systems.
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Re:Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring by sudhirj on Saturday December 16, 2017 @11:16AM (#15940145)
The tunnel could allow just Teslas - with their ultra fancy air filters you could set off a chemical weapon inside the tunnel and everyone in the cars would still be fine :D
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Re:Elon Musk’s Ideas About Transportation are Boring by seanmcdirmid on Saturday December 16, 2017 @12:08PM (#15940376)
By the time these tunnels are ready (if ever), urban private transportation will probably be primarily electric anyways.
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