Boring Company Will Be Worth More Than Tesla

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Welcome to the fifth episode in this new series, Our Boring Tunnel Future! Zac takes you through what could happen when Elon Musk's Boring Company Tunnels become a major part of our infrastructure. This series is written by Zac Cataldo and Ross Tessien. Please consider supporting us on Patreon. We have some pledge rewards you may be interested in, so go check that out. Now You Know! #nowyouknow #elonmusk #boringtunnelfuture

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Tunnels will be needed on Mars ... thats Elon Golden goose .. tunnels on Earth are only demo :-)

JsemTady
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Imagine this...

He gets us to Mars with SpaceX, where he digs tunnels with the Boring Company, in which he builds a SolarCity for us to drive our Teslas around.

Oh, and everyone's equipped with "not-a-flamethrower, " just in case aliens show up.

Bonus: we use Neuralink to control OpenAI, managed with PayPal.

adrianbiber
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Nobody is talking about the queues to the elevators going to the tunnels

Kuba
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I feel like there's so much of the problems being left out

devanman
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These tunnels will need air locks, sprinkler systems, drainage systems, vertical access points, and electric emergency vehicles.

ideoformsun
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Does your cost estimates of $5Mper lane-mile include the cost of entrance and exit infrastructure?

lhorthy
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You can also smoke a bowl while going through the tunnel

joegerhard
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This will be emergency workers worst nightmare

RedwihteGame
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i just sat through a 13 minute and 27 second commercial.

nos
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The more they charge above the cost per mile for tunnels, the more profit they will have to drill additional tunnels. Drilling two tunnels at once doubles the per-day mileage of drilling.

tobyw
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I wrote 1992 in my first book "Aufstieg zum Solarzeitalter" (Advance to solar age on page 187 about electric cars making sub surface traffic easy. Amazing how this becomes true.

pegefounder
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Traffic within the tunnels are fast, but what do the cars do when they get out and start piling up with higher volume? You wanna dig 75, 000 tunnels under a city, one for each direction?

shadbakht
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Have you calculated the cost to operate and maintain the tunnel on top of digging it?

OctalysisPrimeYT
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For your 25k vehicles, cars would have to continuously join the tunnel every 2 seconds for 12 hours. I think they will need 30 tunnels minimum each way to make this work, which increases the cost. Also, major backups at entry and exit points. Love the series. Keep it up!

Hoss-gduy
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Conjection at tunnel entry and exit points would be a major challenge. And just to add up to your great explanation - 1 tunnel is able to serve ~13000 cars per hour without stop and go

lespukh
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Elon Musk: buys time by building tunnel for himself while buying time building tunnels for everyone.

oscarsaavedra
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You skipped the bit about Tesla's robo taxis being the only taxis that could use the tunnels. A double dip on revenue. A faster service and Tesla gets taxi money plus tunnel money, or they discount the tunnel fee and rely on speed to sell more rides.

PalimpsestProd
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I think an issue not thought about is entry and exit congestion. There may be a lot of cars wanting to go to the same location via the tunnels. Entry to and from the tunnels will be the bottle neck and will effect surface and in tunnel speeds. You can only make on and off ramps so long before they are full. I am sure there are theoretical solutions but in reality I feel this will be the biggest challenge in order to get the future we all want to see with the tunnels.

bdgrandin
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Keep it up Zac, love the series. It’s what I have been saying for years, we need to be more ‘progressive’ instead of ‘regressive’.

michaelmara
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uh, i'm not getting in a tunnel anywhere near the San Andreas fault line.

iKumala