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Niv Dror
@nivo0o0 · Writer/Social Editor @ProductHunt
Elon Musk stuck in traffic, comes up with totally futuristic idea to end traffic. Elon Musk tweets, said futuristic idea to end traffic. Calls it the Boring company. "Boring, it's what we do." 5 months later, reveals futuristic new company at TED. If 👏 this 👏 was 👏 a 👏 movie 👏 it 👏 would 👏 be 👏 considered 👏 "too out there" 👏 to 👏 be 👏 reality. 👏 Very proud of my good friend Elon.
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Ahmad Awais
@mrahmadawais · Full Stack Dev— WordPress Core Developer
@nivo0o0 We need this here in Lahore, PK!
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Lyondhur
@lyondhur · SM UX/IxD Designer ProdDev & Scrum Coach
@nivo0o0 Tunnels never REALLY had great life span in human history. Why go underground.. if you can fly?
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Andrew Askins
@andrewaskins · Co-founder, Krit
@lyondhur @nivo0o0 there was an article about this a few weeks ago. Musk argued that flying cars aren't as good an idea as everyone thinks they are. Hard to control all of those flight paths and crashes could be extremely dangerous. His example was imagine a hub cap coming off and flying through the air.
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Arqum Younus
@arqumyounus · Tech savvy
@lyondhur @nivo0o0 Totally agree with you, why go underground, why not go for overhead roads?
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Lyondhur
@lyondhur · SM UX/IxD Designer ProdDev & Scrum Coach
@andrewaskins @nivo0o0 I'm not necessarily implying flying cars only, but over-the-ground trains and cars systems (flying, as in speed). However, we're quite close to a technological jump that's unprecedented. I see NO BIG AN OBSTACLE to manage an entire network of airways for flying vehicles with Artificial Intelligence, as it reaches a favourable point to do so. I heard it in a conversation with fellow designers and teacher friends that Musk's reluctant argument around flying cars revolves around the fact that he himself doesn't have a stake in it. Yet. Meaning, we'd be too behind in that race, as he is far too involved with tunnels, solar and neural networks. I won't be surprised if his argument completely changes in 10 years.
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Lyondhur
@lyondhur · SM UX/IxD Designer ProdDev & Scrum Coach
@andrewaskins @nivo0o0 We can do this without AI, 24/7. I think we will be able to manage the future. https://www.facebook.com/Discove...
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Karim Higazy
@karim_higazy
This guy is like James Cameron's sequel to Steve Jobs.
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H
Lena
@panasenkova · Co-founder of geekhut
@karim_higazy yes, he is raising the bar
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Joshua Marriage
@joshyoowah · VALUE
@karim_higazy except this guy has ideas that advance humanity lol
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Kunal Bhatia
@kunalslab · Co-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp
Elon has truly turned into Bored Elon Musk! 😂🕳️
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jeremy carson
@thejeremycarson · Founder, creata.co
seems so insanely impractical. massive tunnels for removing a few dozen cars from the flow of traffic at a time won't do much. am interested in how it scales. EDIT: massive tunnels, not massive tunes. though, an elon musk cover band sounds interesting...
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Sotiris Karagiannis
@skaragiannis
@thejeremycarson I agree. I'd prefer to direct his creativity and vision to a really impossible until now target: Teleportation
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Bruno Skvorc
@bitfalls · I work at SitePoint and Diffbot.com
@skaragiannis @thejeremycarson you would kill yourself to send a copy of yourself to your destination? Seems mad.
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Sotiris Karagiannis
@skaragiannis
@bitfalls @thejeremycarson who says that? Old movies ? I believe we don't even know what's coming with biocomputing and quantum physics and other tech. Ai seems so predictable compared to them!
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Noah Kim
@wuss · Startup in Progress ▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░ 30%
@thejeremycarson 1% solution for a 1% problem. The real problem is "how do we get the most people from point A to point B as comfortably and with as little friction as possible". What this is solving is "how do I get me and my beloved car that is mostly driving just me around 90% of the time, from point A to point B as comfortably and with as little friction as possible".
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Gabe Ragland
@gabe_ragland · Founder, Imgfave (YC S12)
@thejeremycarson Why do you think it would only remove a few dozen cars? You can have many many layers of tunnels. In the video he talks about how you can dig much farther down than the tallest skyscraper.
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Noah Kim
@wuss · Startup in Progress ▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░ 30%
What happens to the gaping hole left in the road after the car descends?
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Ben Ingignieri
@ben_ingignieri · Creative Designer | www.bennyboxhead.com
@wuss Hopefully it closes as soon as the car descends under the road & quickly, otherwise there'll be reports of pothole sightings around the city leading to the underworld! xD
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Juan Sanchez
@jsanc623 · Founder @ Sphire
@ben_ingignieri @wuss So, NYC day to day?
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Joaquin Gonzalez
@woakin · Technology, Marketing
Someone needs to show him how to use the subway!
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Sergio Flores
@byoigres · Software Developer
I actually never thought of a platform for transporting the car. This looks like the future.
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Paul de Fombelle
@paulodef · sows Mailify, reaps email marketers
@byoigres i dont see the point of the platform. Why not use the "drive" feature of the car?
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Paul de Fombelle
@paulodef · sows Mailify, reaps email marketers
@byoigres then we could build a platform to transport the platform
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Scott Robertson
@scott_robertson · Engineer, Baremetrics
@paulodef @byoigres Why waste battery power?
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Josh
@joshwhiteheadme · Lead Designer @sauceyapp
@paulodef @byoigres The point of the platform is for controlled traffic. If people were driving in the tunnels it would become congested and potentially dangerous. My bigger concern is what happens to that giant gapping hole in the ground. Does it get sealed by a door the second the car passes through? If not this design is very very dangerous.
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Markus Schuette
@markus_schuette
@joshwhiteheadme the self driving feature will allow traffic to be controlled. No need for an autonomous platform.
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Jake Cohen
@coloradically
@joshwhiteheadme @paulodef @byoigres The problem is it will ultimately be come congested because it doesnt make use of space well. 5 cars would fit a 128 person train
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Bas Grasmayer
@basgras · MUSIC x TECH x FUTURE
@markus_schuette @joshwhiteheadme Only if basically all cars are self-driving.
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Juan Sanchez
@jsanc623 · Founder @ Sphire
@markus_schuette @joshwhiteheadme The problem with letting the self-driving cars in the tunnels without the platform is that someone could disengage the self-driving feature (or override a lock that is activated whilst in the tunnel). On top of that, you're wasting the car's battery (see how long a Tesla drives while going over 100mph).
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Cherepukhin
@ivandothetrick · Head of Product Design & Entrepreneur
Boring Hunt.
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Adithya Shreshti
@adithya · Founder of Startuposphere
Something is totally not right here - I mean not the 'boring' idea or the website but the value of the website, it’s valued at just $3k 😉 Look's like this is a fan made website! (saw Elon's tweet though)
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Simon Bromberg
@shimmb · iOS Engineer @LifeBEAM, sbromberg.com
@adithya Well, Elon Musk tweeted the URL: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/sta... lol @ his replies
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Dr. Joseph Santoro
@joseph_santoro · Marketing & Branding, Phone2Action
Well, they can't all be winners...
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David Ryan
@davedri · Founded Corilla. Red Hat & NUMA alumnus.
@joseph_santoro can't work out if that's The Jetson's or a mockup of the animation for the next Apple product launch :P
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Ravi Srinivasan
@ravsydney · Founder - TruContacts.com
Now this boring hunt is going to bury all the cool products on Product Hunt and prevent them from surfacing.
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Ben Ingignieri
@ben_ingignieri · Creative Designer | www.bennyboxhead.com
Does Elon Musk ever sleep lol?! Seriously though, i'm loving these futuristic ideas he comes up with!
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J. Alexander Curtis
@_jacurtis · Co-Founder, OhMyTix
This honestly seems like a lot of work to only go 124mph. With computers controlling these platforms, it seems completely practical to go much faster. I mean we are already driving 80-90mph on the freeways as is. It seems like a lot of work and money to build a system with such a small gain. Granted yes the theoretical problem is that in some areas we have traffic jams preventing us from reaching these speeds at certain times of the day. But the infrastructure and time it would take to build this advanced tunnel project, it would be much cheaper and faster to just enhance our existing roads in problematic areas to prevent traffic jams.
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Jordan Krueger
@jordankrueger
@_jacurtis Since these tunnels would only be in cities, and most cities are not very spread out, there really wouldn't be a need to go much faster. It probably wouldn't even be practical for most trips to go that fast. Even in Los Angeles, an extraordinarily large city, the commute from Simi Valley (basically the farthest north suburb) to Long Beach (far south of LA downtown) – 65 miles – would only take about 35m at 124mph. That's a commute that would be unthinkable now (1.5-2.5h). San Francisco to, say, Sunnyvale is just 40 miles. FiDi to SFO is just 12 miles.
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Sravan Kumar
@sravang · Software Developer
Seems we are concentrating on a wrong problem. Concentration of large population in cities is good only until pre-industrial period. Its high time that we distribute businesses and population across the land - no more big cities, no more small towns. That way not just traffic but life standard improves too. It looks stupid to see a large population in a small area while we see so much free land in just 5 minutes of flight takeoff.
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joshua bradley
@airjoshb · Celebrating people, making life better.
So... privileged people don't have to wait in traffic but all of their employees do? Seems less complicated to launch CEOcopters and build some landing pads.
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Khalif
@khaliphj · Founder www.hiresquid.com
Late April fool's joke?
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John Feighery
@rocketboy76 · co-founder, mWater.co
If the goal is to build an innovative engineering company that does for tunnels what SpaceX did for space launch, it seems like a great idea. This video, not so much.. it reminds me of the Dr Who episode, Gridlock, where people are stuck in traffic in underground tunnels for their entire lives.
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David Ryan
@davedri · Founded Corilla. Red Hat & NUMA alumnus.
@rocketboy76 Great episode and I thought of the same thing!
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F.E.
@tafkaf
This is not a solution for transportation issues in cities. We need less cars, not expensive sci-fi-carriages for cars. Idiotic.
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alavers
@alavers · Developer
Or build a subway...
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Chris Bradley
@briscradley · made
I would have thought better subway systems/underground mass transport would be far more effective then individual cars... You're still going to get stuck in traffic getting to the things, and then stuck in traffic on the other side, and how many entrances/exits are you going to need for it to be useful to actually get around a city...
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