Elon Musk Shows Off The Boring Company's LA Tunnel (theverge.com)

Elon Musk is keeping to his promise of opening the Boring Company's proof-of-concept tunnel to the public on December 10th. The two-mile-long Los Angeles tunnel takes 30 seconds to get through via a sped-up video. The Verge reports: Construction on the tunnel began over a year ago, and extends from SpaceX's Hawthorne, California headquarters, to an LA suburb. Since then, the Boring Company has been selected to build tunnels for Chicago and Washington DC, and has sketched out plans to build a larger network of tunnels under LA, with the aim of reducing congestion. The tunnels will theoretically use autonomous, electric skates to move anywhere from 8 to 16 people along the system's rails at speeds anywhere from 124 mph to 155mph.

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Re:Cost to use it a factor

[Rei]

People pay to use transportation infrastructure to save them money (or if they don't have a vehicle) all the time. The former group includes things like toll roads, toll bridges, ferries, etc. The latter group includes... well, all public transportation.

Loop is designed for both (vehicle capsules and passenger capsules). Are you saying that you wouldn't use a system that could cut, say, an hour commute down to a 15 minute commute? And even if you didn't, the fact that others would would directly benefit you on the surface.