Elon Musk's years-long quest to solve traffic by getting cars underground might be a pipe dream, but there could be one good thing to come out of it: cheap tunnels.
Daniel Knowles, a writer for the Economist and the author of"Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What To Do About It"— a book about how cars contribute to public health crises and fuel climate crisis released in March — argues that Musk could very well reduce the cost of tunneling for subways, which is a process that adds billions to subway development in this country.
The problem, he argues, is that Musk is not interested in that. Instead, the CEO and billionaire has his own vision for improving transportation. This includes solving traffic by moving transportation underground through car tunnels or building a successful hyperloop.
"I think he's as car-brained as anybody else," Knowles continued, referencing one of the key premises in his book, which is that America, and the world, is hooked on car culture.As recently as March, Musk's The Boring Company, a construction company dedicated to underground automotive transportation, has been touting tunnels to solve all the issues cars produce: noise, pollution, and never-ending traffic jams.
And Musk has often been explicit that traditional public transportation options, like subways, would not be a part of his vision. He even once called a
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