How The Boring Company is increasing tunneling speed
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How The Boring Company is increasing tunneling speed
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#2They're developing an upgraded tunnel boring machine that is 10x faster than existing ones, and can be launched directly from the surface instead of needing excavation.
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#3If they really can get the cars running at 150 mph regularly these might be competitive for long journeys in Europe. Obviously it will depend in some part on the self-driving technology.
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#4If they really can get the cars running at 150 mph regularly these might be competitive for long journeys in Europe. Obviously it will depend in some part on the self-driving technology.
Aren't their tunnels low diameter? Self driving seems an absolute necessity. If someone clips the tunnel wall that's an enormous traffic jam just waiting to happen.
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#5If they really can get the cars running at 150 mph regularly these might be competitive for long journeys in Europe. Obviously it will depend in some part on the self-driving technology.
Aren't their tunnels low diameter? Self driving seems an absolute necessity. If someone clips the tunnel wall that's an enormous traffic jam just waiting to happen.
Unless they've pivoted again since the last time it was discussed/demonstrated, the cars don't steer themselves through the tunnel like a car on open road, but instead are steered by the tunnel itself, more like a roller coaster on a track.
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#6> TBC’s current tunnels are designed and built in preparation for their eventual transition to Hyperloop.
One would expect no less... exciting times ahead.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Aren't their tunnels low diameter? Self driving seems an absolute necessity. If someone clips the tunnel wall that's an enormous traffic jam just waiting to happen.
Unless they've pivoted again since the last time it was discussed/demonstrated, the cars don't steer themselves through the tunnel like a car on open road, but instead are steered by the tunnel itself, more like a roller coaster on a track.
How does that work with rubber tires? I'm just having trouble visualizing it.
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#8For those asking it's only for autopilot cars that use a specific app not the usual car app. They had released a demo ride here https://youtu.be/FrgdvvgvI_I
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#9I wonder if the autopilot has special emergency modes for driving in half-duplex tunnels like this. Could a following car be instructed to push a disabled vehicle to safety? Can the autopilot drive backwards out of the tunnel? There's no room for escape from a fire, flooding or various kinetic failures. Imagine a defective wheel letting go in that little tunnel.
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#10> TBC’s current tunnels are designed and built in preparation for their eventual transition to Hyperloop. One would expect no less... exciting times ahead.
Ah, Hyperloop. Always wondered what they planned to do with the passenger safety. Say, the passenger capsule depressurizes, and the air escapes into the tunnel, that'd be nasty. Or the capsule gets stuck in the middle of the tunnel: now you have to break it out, reseal the tunnel and then remove the air out of it again (its hundred of kilometres long), that sounds pretty expensive and time-consuming. And what if it crashes into the wall instead? At the proposed speed that'd be a pretty heavy impact, would people survive it?