The Boring Company 2022 Update

The Boring Company 2022 Update.. Recently Elon Musk's Boring Company tunnel unfortunately... had some traffic, which it's supposed to solve. Let's look into The Boring Company, what's to come in 2022, how it's supposed to prevent traffic, and how it works.

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[DbeeSapphire]

I think the tunnels are excellent, but at the convention center, wouldn’t tracks and compact rail vehicles, holding more than 3 passengers, make more sense than expensive cars?

[bankoleogundero]

1:30. I'm familiar with the basics of the boring company but still trying to wrap my head around the practicality. The way to solve the traffic problem is to build more mass transit systems (buses on dedicated bus lanes, trams on dedicated tram lanes, trains, cycle/walk paths). If people have more options to travel, they'll use their cars way less. Less cars on the road equates to less traffic. The boring company concept requires people in cars, not just any car but electric cars (basing this on the working proof of concept). The CGI shows a device carrying cars and moving at high speed on a pre-planned route (hmmm... 🤔 sounds like a train to me but carrying way less people per trip).

[ferniegutierrez]

It’s far from their goal but so was Tesla at first. This is one of his newest companies. I have no doubt if it’s serious enough, it will be done.

[sockpastarock]

There are so many problems with what you present here. The idea that you portray these tunnels as efficient because they are only 12ft in diameter, barely enough space to fit a single Tesla just shows how dangerously uninformed your position is.

There's a reason other tunnels are much larger and use significantly larger machinery (which is also a large contributing factor to the speed difference, doubling diameter of a tunnel means moving 4x as much earth. Area = pi*r^2). The reason is that there is a plethora of additional safety and access requirements that need to be considered.

Currently, if any kind of emergency is to occur inside the single lane tunnels, almost nothing can be done for emergency responders to reach the site of that emergency quickly. They're contending with a queue of other vehicles occupying the same single lane. Not to mention the possibility of any emergency occuring during a traffic jam.

Compared to more conventional subways where all trains are networked together and constantly communicating, other emergency vehicles can always be dispatched along the other rail to reach the site of the emergency in no time. Additionally, human access tunnels line the sides of the primary subway tunnel so that humans can escape on foot if required. There is also a lot of additional infrastructure for ventilation among other things all of which these tunnels don't have.

People will die in these tunnels. They are significantly less efficient than just a regular subway. If you want to cling on to claims that the boring machines have new tech which makes them more efficient - great. But try applying that tech at a scale larger than 12ft diameter otherwise it's pretty useless for constructing any kind of safe transport.

[dilliam]

If they can get the price of tunneling down to 10M or even 50M per mile and expand the diameter to 20ft, then it could be used for way more applications. Boring company + Rail would be epic.

[gregb]

A video was recently with one person using the tunnel and the others walked, well the walkers easily won as the cue just to get in the car took longer than the walk lol

[jpfunk]

It’s pretty obvious where the presenter stands. The Vegas loop is incredibly disappointing with an average speed near 30 mph and rider throughput less than a city bus. If you think a single lane can free up traffic congestion, you’re dreaming.

[kat]

There are plans to do a tunnel in Austin Texas,

[fromgermany]

If someone wants to see working „hyper loops“,
fly to Vienna, the do not only have tunnels everywhere, they also have Terra-Pods for hundreds of people you can just enter the tunnelland nearly everywhere. You get an all-inclusive ticket for 365€/year or 1€/day for the low mathers. In Vienna most people don’t even see a need for a car.
That’s future, but available today, or as Musk „we do that NOW“.

[josefsaldivar]

You completely forgot the tunnel in Austin to the giga factory. Great work 👏

[theDigited]

It really can't be argued that putting a car through a one-way tunnel is the most stupid and ineffective idea you can possibly come with. It solves nothing and just creates more traffic and technical problems.
It's also obvious why Teslas "shouldn't be able to rip through tunnels on their own" - FSD is a $10K extra and only few cars have it.

[EisenFeuer]

I was stretching and found myself raising my hand high and proud at the very moment you said "none of you raised your hand"

[mulelpi]

I always figured the Boring Company would be used to build tunnels on Mars to connect the Martian colonies.

[cgcrosby]

You’re right; full self-driving seems like it should be incredibly easy inside of tunnels built by themselves…

[aaronwilliams]

I think the tunnels are fine, though I think it would be better to use rail compared to EVs. Rails don't require a bunch of self-driving technology or batteries.

[evilssundee]

He assumed none of us raised her hand but I know for a fact there's that one guy that genuinely raise their hand

[zacharybaker]

I think as long as the technology keeps advancing, Elon will continue to fund The Boring Company, regardless of it's financial success. Optimizing these machines could be extremely beneficial to his plan to colonize Mars. Building underground seems like the easiest way keep everything sealed off from the atmosphere. Also, if they're able to use the soil that they dig up to make a concrete equivalent, that could drastically reduce the amount of material they need to ship from earth.

[ToniDJohns]

Very cool !! Thanks for this update. I had lost focus on this. Good to see the advances as well as challenges. Having lived and worked in Vegas it makes good sense to have the tunnels built.

[MegaWilderness]

All tunnel boring machines are electrically powered, some via hydraulics.

[MrGunderfly]

Detractors will inaccurately try to say he "has to be in charge of everything", this is factually not true when you look at the trust he instills in his leaders, especially after they have earned that trust time and again. He does however have the ability to step in when a leader fails, because he is a trained engineer, and has a skill for becoming an expert in a field quickly, when it is called for. many people don't understand "expert generalism", "first principles thinking", or "systems thinking". many onlookers detest the idea that this is possible. but it is possible to train yourself, to become an expert in many different areas. Our species has evolved to do just this. it is corporate society that have now pressured individuals to become specialized.