Elon Musk at the conference just now: “I have to say the this this notion of induced demand is one of the single dumbest notions I've ever heard in my entire life."
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More Musk on induced demand: “If adding roads just increases traffic, why don't we delete them and decrease traffic? I think you'd have an uproar if you did that."
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More Musk on induced demand: “If adding roads just increases traffic, why don't we delete them and decrease traffic? I think you'd have an uproar if you did that."
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To wrap this, Musk ended these comments by repeating his idea to do Boring Co. tunnels in three dimensions underground.
“You've got people living in 3D, and then you want to take them in & out of those buildings on a 2D road network. How would you possibly expect that to work?"
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Making something easier results in people doing it more. This is not news.
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That’s true but the way the concept is often used is that adding capacity doesn’t solve traffic, so folks say don’t bother but are ignoring that you enable more trips.
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It’s public transport blindness, a particularly American problem.
To solve road traffic, you build train and bus lines. It’s that simple.
Next time stuck in traffic, don’t think ‘wish there was another lane’, think ‘wish the guy ahead was on the train’.
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Bikeways too. And the faster and cheaper and better those trains are, the faster the roads are.
Voodoo?
Nah; it’s simply that the more enticing the train option, the fewer who will opt to drive and clog the roads.
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How we build our houses is a major systemic root cause of the roads problem
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This video series explains why North American towns are terrible to live in and how to fix it youtube.com/playlist?list=
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