Comment by bb88
9 years ago
> But ultimately you aren't going to have tunnels dug by the Boring Company out into the extensive suburbs either.
The point of the boring company is to make excavation of tunnels an order of magnitude cheaper. [1] And if he succeeds, I suspect demand for the tunnels will push them out to the burbs.
But if you can make tunnel digging orders of magnitude cheaper, why not just run subways to the suburbs?
In Elon's world, nobody wants to walk or ride a bike that last mile from suburban subway station to their suburban house.
Nor, presumably, transfer from an autonomous taxi or bus to a subway train at that station.
Maybe he's right? Think of this as a subway for cars!