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I guarantee no amount of self-driving cars, Uber, or any other car-related technology will make people stop taking the subway in New York.

The car bridges and tunnels into and out of Manhattan are at full capacity all day long. It is vastly faster to take the subway in most normal cases.



I've often wondered though why companies like the MTA don't transform their networks into things like Elon Musk's boring company type network


Because the passengers per hour is far lower under musk's scheme.


We're talking 25k to 45k passengers an hour on a train versus ~1000 people per hour with Elon Musk's Boring company. It isn't even vaguely competitive.




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