Re:Tunnel Boring Machines (2018)
by bluGill on Monday November 18, 2019 @08:55AM
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Elon's tunnels don't solve anything. His cars are so large that the amount of people a tunnel can move is small. We can add more tunnels, but it isn't cheap, and geometry means we can't add enough - there is only so much space below us and you need to keep tunnels apart.
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> there is only so much space below us
Is this actually a practical limitation? You could go a mile deep, and pack the tunnels way more densely than roads on the surface (since we don't need to put buildings in between the roads).