Do you think boring companies in elon musk are a viable alternative to the existing public transport system?

No, it's not. The company's goal is to build a tunnel for electric pallets to pass through. Each pallet carries a car, and each car carries passengers.

Generally speaking, a car can accommodate one or two people. Suppose the average value is 1. Five people. Pallets must be large enough to accommodate the largest car designed for transportation. Suppose the largest car is Tesla Cybertruck, about 6 x 2 meters (250 x 80 inches), so the pallet is about 6.5 x 2.5 meters to allow some extra margin to guide and protect the car. So, if these pallets are lined up like a train, a train with 24 pallets will be 156 meters long and can accommodate 36 people on average.

A typical subway train consists of eight carriages, each of which is 20 meters long. Therefore, it is160m long. Each car can carry up to 200 people, but for the sake of comfort, we assume that it does not exceed 100 people. In this case, a train can carry 800 people.

So as far as people are concerned, the century-old subway beat boring companies and new technologies at a speed of 22 1. Let's look at energy efficiency. We don't know how the pallet of boring company behaves in friction. Will they install steel wheels on the rails? Or a rubber wheel on a cement track? Even magnetic levitation technology? We only know that motors are motors, and pallets and subways are in use. What really matters is weight, because weight determines the energy needed to accelerate an object.

The subway is not an easy thing. It must meet very strict safety requirements. An empty car weighs about 30 tons, so a train with 8 carriages will weigh 240 tons. Assume that every 200 vehicles 100 people, each person's load is about 300 kilograms.

The pallet of the drilling company must transport a bus, so the weight to be considered is the pallet plus the weight of the car it transports. An ordinary car weighs about 1.5 tons, and if it is an electric car, it is more than 2 tons. The weight of pallets, wheels, brakes, engines and all safety accessories may be at least 1 ton. Let's assume that the total is 3 tons. It can carry 1.5 people, which means that each person can carry 2 tons of passengers.

Therefore, as far as the number of people per load unit is concerned, the subway train that is a hundred years behind beat the new technology of boring company by 7 1. I can go on, but I think you know what I mean. The company has not proposed a feasible alternative to the existing public transport system, whether in terms of space occupation, capacity or cost. It puts forward a very expensive and inefficient system, which will enable some people who can pay the bill to travel in the tunnel without getting off.