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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by astrodust on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:09PM (#22071516)
The bad externalities of cars are numerous and extend well beyond those things you list, but primarily they create an astoundingly expensive barrier to being part of society and not someone who's left behind.

There aren't enough tunnels in the world to dig your way out of traffic problems. The more roads you make the more traffic you get.

Toll roads just increase the already staggering cost of owning a car, marginalizing even more people.

What about not doing that and instead investing in alternatives?

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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by Gibbon1 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:29PM (#22071604)
A lot of this stuff, 'ride sharing', self driving cars, boring company tunnels, and electric flopters seems not like a way to solve societies transportation/congestion issues but to solve it for the small percentage of well to do people.
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