Comment by bb88
9 years ago
> Because that’s hugely inefficient compared to a subway network. I live in Paris, France. 100% of its inhabitants have at least one of the 300+ subway stations under 1 km (0.6 miles) of their home.
That's actually pretty awesome, but you may have noticed that Americans don't really care about efficiency.
Once the tunnel is built, you can put anything you want into it. But I suspect we would still choose cars over trains.
People in general don't care about efficiency, and it's not even irrational. Transportation planning tends to treat people as little AI zergs that are going to take the most collectively efficient route to their individual destination. It's best to have a system that's as agnostic to how people want to get where they're going as possible, but I have no idea whether tesla's idea is good.