Elon Musk, genius-inventor and visionary, has just invented the car on tracks.

[DetlefK]

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/visionary-brain-genius-elon-musk-has-invented-the-world-1831210269

You need a Tesla. Outfitted with an extra-set of special wheels.

You drive into the tunnel. You drive through the tunnel, on tracks, in your car, in one long queue.

If one car breaks down, the tunnel is clogged.

The tunnel has no emergency-lane and is barely wide enough to open your door.





The test-run was made at 49 mph and a journalist complained that it was as bumpy as a dirt-road.

[RandiFan1290]

1. The same moron

that thought he could land rocket boosters after launch to reuse them.

What an idiot!

[DetlefK]

2. That actually seems to work.

I haven't heard that they can reuse the rocket right-away, but they can surely reuse some parts of it after maintenance. At they won't have to build a brand-new rocket from scratch.

[DFW]

3. We've had those things in Europe for over a century. Over here, we call them "trains."

You don't even need a Tesla for them to cause a traffic back-up or have a bumpy ride.

[Coventina]

6. I thought this was a joke that he thought he'd invented trains.

(you beat me to it!)

[DFW]

8. That's what it sounded like to me, but who knows?

Some people have imaginations that run faster than they can verbalize, and maybe Musk has something in mind so out-of-the-box that he was thinking of some incredible new thing no one can imagine, and he just verbalized it poorly for the rest of us mortals?

[RobinA]

18. I Think

you're on to something here!

[diva77]

15. Yah but trains have to stay on the tracks. The Tesla can be on or off the track.

[DFW]

16. With all the derailment accidents this year......

You could almost say the same thing about trains!!

[diva77]

20. Noooooooo!!

[Zorro]

4. If you've ever driven on the 405 during rush hour

you'll understand his motivation.

[DFW]

9. I've driven on the 405 at rush hour.

It made me appreciate horses. Hell, it made me appreciate Timberland shoes.

[Ptah]

10. You think this world fit in a tunnel?

[caraher]

19. It would if you replaced all the vehicles with a train

Our addiction to automobiles is the basic problem. Inventing better cars still leaves us with cars.

[Just a Weirdo]

5. Color me unimpressed

That was done a long time ago. Now, he needs to make flying cars.

[RandiFan1290]

7. I love the nay sayers

Same people that said he couldn't do this:

[Just a Weirdo]

11. That was impressive actually

But cars on a track? It's called a train.

[Fla Dem]

12. Not going to say this is something that won't eventually happen. VIDEO of car in tunnel.

I probably won't see it in my lifetime, at least not on a large scale endeavor. But can see it for mass transportation.

But in California? I would be so scared of being in one of those tunnels and there is an earthquake.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/19/tech/boring-company-tunnel-elon-musk/index.html

[Phentex]

13. I don't like tunnels...

I've seen what happens in them in the movies.

[diva77]

14. It's not as if the Wright Bros. came up with a working airplane on their first try. I'd like to see

this idea evolve.

[DetlefK]

17. There are only two ways how this can evolve:

1. Public mass-transit system.
Bicycles for rent in tiny parking-lots all over the city. Unlocked and paid with your Smartphone.
+ buses
+ short-range trains/subways
+ long-range high-speed trains.
(Europe already has this system.)

2. Communally owned driverless cars.
Ordered and sent back on an as-needed basis.