Future Travel in Underground Tunnel, What's Your Opinion?

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I don't know if I'd like this, what do you think, good idea or bad? Would you want to use a tunnel like this in the future?


 

Anything that could reduce traffic by an appreciable degree is, in theory a great thing. In CA, I'd be afraid. I've always been afraid of tunnels, anyway. At the local amusement park, there was a little train ride around a field and it had a tunnel. I remember they forced me on it one time with my father and I screamed my head off in there.

There are alternates to tunnels, tho'...mass transit, work from home programs, electric cars, solar, etc.
 

I have no problems travelling on the tube ( subway) but I definitely wouldn't want to travel underground for a long distance in a car because there would be hundreds of cars travelling at the same time doubtless head to tail... . Imagine if a couple of miles in, someone broke down in front of you ...jeez claustrophobia would set in super quickly!!
 
hollydolly said:
I have no problems travelling on the tube ( subway) but I definitely wouldn't want to travel underground for a long distance in a car because there would be hundreds of cars travelling at the same time doubtless head to tail... . Imagine if a couple of miles in, someone broke down in front of you ...jeez claustrophobia would set in super quickly!!
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What about that tunnel under the English Channel? Is it called a Chunnel? How is that? What a great piece of engineering that was.
 
Muggins here was diasappointed when the chunnel actually met in the middle!Would have been great if they had got it wrong!There are some quite long road tunnels in alpine countries but what's the point of a tunnel where you don't need one.And I agree that in an earthquake zone they are absolute folly.
 
Maybe for short distances, a few miles it would be OK. I would be concerned about car breakdowns, earthquake. Would there be a breakdown lane? I would probably get a bit claustrophobic.
But it would be kind of cool in bad weather. As I type this, I wonder, also, about how the tunnel would be vented? Car exhaust, stuff like that.
 
It's very interesting but IMO Mr. Musk is on the wrong track.

I do understand his line of thinking and when you consider the fact that he manufactures automobiles it makes some sense.

IMO we should be focusing on how to move people and goods as inexpensively, efficiently and safely as possible. That may mean abandoning private ownership of vehicles in densely populated areas and replacing them with some sort of light rail/subway coupled with buses or autonomous little bubble car rentals for scooting around town.

We may need to take a step back in time to the days when dad dropped the family station wagon at the railroad station and took the train into town.

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I went through the Windsor tunnel to Canada on a motorcycle once, I wasn't 'overjoyed'.....the traffic jamb didn't help.
 
Of course, I don't know the details, but there are obvious problems. If that is the type of tunnel, what happens when something breaks further up the tunnel, blocking things for miles? If a rider gets a heart attack, pregnancy, etc.? If you have enough entrances and exits close to where you are going, why take your car?
It seems like an over engineered bad idea. Besides, I like using my portable transporter.
 
hollydolly said:
I have no problems travelling on the tube ( subway) but I definitely wouldn't want to travel underground for a long distance in a car because there would be hundreds of cars travelling at the same time doubtless head to tail... . Imagine if a couple of miles in, someone broke down in front of you ...jeez claustrophobia would set in super quickly!!
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Hollydolly wrote my answer down for me.
The claustrophobia would be excruciating for me personally
 
I can't imagine going at speeds in a tunnel like that up to 150mph, and in a self-driving car no less....not for me. I don't care to drive in regular tunnels, but have no claustrophobia issues just worry about accidents in them.
 
I think in some instances it would be helpful. The tunnel aspect wouldn't bother me but I'd take extra food and water in case I got stuck. I like that the cars can't collide.
 
Holly, if someone suddenly broke down in front of you, claustrophobia would be the least of your problems... you'd probably be dead!

Gary, good reasoning. :lol:
 
I don't mind a relatively short tunnel, such as the Eisenhower on I-70 in Colorado or the tunnel at Mobile AL. But I agree with the others; I wouldn't want to travel long distances underground.
 
If I had to live somewhere where you had to travel in a tunnel under water, I'd move. Even Siberia sounds better to me.
 
Drove through the Brooklyn-battery tunnel for more years than I care to count.
Like the above poster, it terrified me,most especially during the "rush hours" when it would backup and I would sit there thinking of all the things that could happen. ..at times they would only have 1 tube open,so we would be inches from the cars traveling in the opposite direction.
I mostly used the aforementioned because my destination was lower Manhattan but the Lincoln and Holland which windup in NJ,are longer.
 
Maybe Mr. Musk is just being an old-fashioned snake oil salesman by building this prototype so he can attract billions of dollars worth of investment capital for an idea that will never become a reality, he wouldn't be the first.

"There's a sucker born every minute" - David Hannum
 

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