It's not inaccurate at all. A tunnel is strictly bound on surface traffic--because traffic has to enter and exit it--when it doesn't involve slow, failure-prone, low-capacity access points at either end.
While we're at it, optimizing for number of vehicles rather than number of passengers is a very...how do I put it...rich way of thinking about things. Which jibes very well with Elon Musk's whole thing: "mass transit is great so long as I don't have to see the poors."
If you watch the talk, the plan is for autonomous pods that holds passengers with their bikes. Little buses basically. And also cars. You can’t just read the media reports, they are always about max outrage.
Re:Boeing’s Flying Car Has Taken Off
by stcredzero on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:54PM
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I miss the days when I could mostly read news that played on awesome, not outrage.
Second even with a single passenger vehicle, a tunnel can move people over it’s full distance at the same time. Consider a bus moving people on a 5 minute trip vs 50 minute trip on the second case it’s got 1/10 the capacity.
Sure, a 3.5 mile tunnel adds little on it’s own. But, then again it’s also short.