Re:Tunnels are our Transportation Future
by calaphos on Friday August 06, 2021 @06:49PM
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One could even eliminate the heavy and potential dangerous battery with some sort of overhead wire or rail contact.
And since the cars can only move in one direction within a tunnel, one could eliminate the need for steering by placing them on a set of rails. And maybe use some sort of automatic control system to make sure the train stops when needed. Wait..
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Re:Tunnels are our Transportation Future
by iandanforth on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:46PM
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Yeah it's like you take a perfectly good argument "we should be able to make tunnels more efficiently" and then throw in Tesla fan-boyism and it just shuts off the critical thinking centers of the brain.
While I agree your argument sounds good and probably works for many cases, the fact is that I would use the system described in the Tesla scenario and I would never ride a subway in a place like Texas or Los Angeles.
Public transport is absolutely gross and legitimately scary in Los Angeles. However, if I could stay in my car I would totally use this system, also having your car at your destination is incredibly useful and not something you can do with a subway.
IMO they both serve different needs.
Just make sure to update your rail cars once in a while so you don't end up with old pieces of shit that lose power every few km and give you tinnitus when traveling underground. Like some German cities.