Elon Musk's Vision Of Underground Road System
Mr Elon Musk talked about plans they have fully autonomous journey across the United States by the end of the year 2018 by tesla models
Mr Elon Musk talked about plans they have fully autonomous journey across the United States by the end of the year 2018 by tesla models
He spoke about how he wanted solar-powered roof tiles to be planted on every home for power within 50 years.
And he also explained that why he is committed to sending a rocket to Mars.
In a wide-ranging conversation with TED, the founder of Tesla and Space X said that he was inspired for Be consider a tunnel system to alleviate congestion because he found being stuck in traffic to "soul-destroying".
He showed off a concept video at conferences how the multi-layered tunnel system might work.
Cars would stop on a trolley type device and the ground would open up to carry them below the floar. Cars would then drive off the platform and another would get on to be returned above ground from the floar.
He said that his vision was to have no limits for developing the transportation system to the amount of tunnels, but to find ways to cut the cost of boring and to speed up how quickly, such tunnels could be created.
"We have a pet snail called Gary, and Gary is capable of moving 14 times faster than a tunnel boring machine - so the ambition is to beat Gary," musk said
The estimate he set up to oversee the project - The Boring Company -, took up less than 3% of his time, he said, and it was run by interns.
Susan Beardslee, a senior analyst at ABI Research, said the project, sounded like a "moonshot".
He has shown his ability to a visions and I believe he can also take tunnelling and apply the financial capital technical expertise, but this is not a go-it-alone project.
"He is addressing the need to look at congestion then but it will have to be a public or private partnership," she said.
"Musk is good at coming up with a very different way of looking at things, and this might work better somewhere where it can be purpose-built rather than retro-fitted."
Elon is rarely out of the headlines these days - recently notching up another landmark for his Space X business when it launched a recycled rocket as well as starting a new firm - NeuraLink which i have blogged recently that would aim to augment the human brain with computer technology.
His semi-autonomous Tesla car fleet has been under security since a fatal crash in May 2016 accidentally , but Mr Musk showed no signs of slowing down his ambitions for the dream as well as firm.
He promised a "fully autonomous" journey across the US "by the end of the year 2018 which is great news for us.
From a parking lot in California, cross-country to New York or from Seattle to Florida, these cars should be able to go anywhere on the highway system," mr musk said.
Elon also revealed that he had test-driven the semi-autonomous electric truck Tesla plans to unveil in September 2018 this year saying it was so nimble.
"You will drive it around like a sports car," mr musk said.
"In a tug-of-war between a Tesla semi and a diesel semi, the Tesla would pull the diesel uphill." elon said very confidently
Ted curator Chris Anderson also asked to Mr Musk "why he had so many diverse interests on Earth and in Space development in upcoming years'.
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