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Re:Tunnel Boring Machines (2018) by bluGill on Monday November 18, 2019 @08:55AM (#21564295)
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.
Re:Tunnel Boring Machines (2018) by theptip on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @04:13PM (#21578364)
> 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).