Right, but 15 SUVs 5s apart carry 105 people, and if they can actually travel at an average 150mph, that's faster than the average speed of Skytrain's
fastest line by another 3x — so, now we're looking at 315 people moved through the space at the same time.
Factor in cost advantages of the tunnel — 4x cheaper mile-for-mile for the prototype, it seems like? — and the same dollars spent on Boring Co tunnels could actually move a lot more people than Skytrain: you can build 4x the tunnels, moving nearly 1300 people instead of 500.
Even if SUVs can only match the fastest average Skytrain line (50mph), that's still fairly competitive even at the current cost per mile of a Boring Co tunnel. Assuming they can bring cost down further (which is the goal of the company), they could still end up beating trains in terms of people moved per dollar spent.
Listen, I'm not saying it'll happen. But the dismissiveness here reminds me of the "Model 3 will never cost less to build than the price to sell it!!!!!" or "Tesla will never make more than 1000 cars per week!!!" or cash crunch or etc hysteria. I guess Elon attracts that by constantly missing deadlines, but he often still delivers; he just delivers a year or so late.
Factor in cost advantages of the tunnel — 4x cheaper mile-for-mile for the prototype, it seems like? — and the same dollars spent on Boring Co tunnels could actually move a lot more people than Skytrain: you can build 4x the tunnels, moving nearly 1300 people instead of 500.
Even if SUVs can only match the fastest average Skytrain line (50mph), that's still fairly competitive even at the current cost per mile of a Boring Co tunnel. Assuming they can bring cost down further (which is the goal of the company), they could still end up beating trains in terms of people moved per dollar spent.
Listen, I'm not saying it'll happen. But the dismissiveness here reminds me of the "Model 3 will never cost less to build than the price to sell it!!!!!" or "Tesla will never make more than 1000 cars per week!!!" or cash crunch or etc hysteria. I guess Elon attracts that by constantly missing deadlines, but he often still delivers; he just delivers a year or so late.