Elon Musks Boring Company is making progress extending its first tunnel from the Las Vegas convention center to the first Casinos on the Vegas strip. During typical peak hours, driving from the Las Vegas Convention Center to Mandalay Bay, for example, can take up to 30 minutes. The same trip on Vegas Loop will take …
Virgin Hyperloop is had its first-ever passenger test. They have two people at a time in the pods on a 500-meter test track. There are eight companies working towards developing the Hyperloop concept. The Hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and freight transportation, first used to describe an open-source vactrain design released by a …
Special use permit applications and Design Review applications have been started for the Boring Company Las Vegas Loop system. The Boring Company Vegas Loop will be underground tunnels stretching as far north as downtown Las Vegas, throughout the Strip corridor, and as far south as the Allegiant Stadium, pending approval later this week by the …
India had 35 million motorized vehicles in 2019 and this is expected to triple by 2035. 12% were cars but a third were two-wheel scooters and another third were motorized rickshaws. The top-selling two-wheel scooter is the Honda Activa with a 7 horsepower motor. This is equal to 5.2 kilowatts. The price is $700-740 (50,000 …
The 22 wildly successful Marvel movies led up to Avengers Infinity War and Avengers Endgame with the villain Thanos. This article will discuss the plan that Thanos had and why the plan was stupid as well as evil. This article will have some spoilers. The movies are over a year old and are completely fictional …
Deloitte have recently published a study outlining the important role that bicycles will undertake in the future of urban transport. Predominantly, the role they will play will be in reducing traffic congestion, which may be worsened by self-driving cars, along with urban air quality and public health. The study suggests that the number of people …
China started a war on air pollution and they are making progress. The team found that between 2014 and 2017, China’s annual power plant emissions of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulate matter dropped by 65%, 60% and 72% each year respectively from 2.21, 3.11 and 0.52 million tonnes in 2014 to 0.77, 1.26 and …
Startup Bounce Wants to Support a Future Without Car Ownership
The world we know today has largely been shaped by geography, populations and agriculture. Peter Zeihan has some useful analysis of how geography has shaped geopolitics. He correctly notes the large advantages the US has had with the best farmland and the best connected river system. Rivers can transport goods at 15 times greater energy …
Boring Company has a video showing Tesla’s with autopilot driving at 127 mph in Boring tunnels. They are not using sleds or guide wheels. This would mean if Boring Company can build the tunnels at the low-cost they are projecting then no other upgrades with rail or other systems will be needed. They will be …
Self-driving cars should be able to solve traffic and parking problems. However, this requires that most self-driving cars are used with ride-sharing to maximize the useful rides per car and to reduce the amount of parking that is needed. Adam Millard-Ball, an associate professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, warns …