Is Elon Musk an earthling?

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Maybe I'm doubting the next Brunel here, but I'm not holding my breath on viable low-pressure tube travel.

Jordan Brandt, technology futurist at Autodesk has proposed using a carbon fiber weaving machine to make the tube, reducing it's weight, and reducing its cost by many billions.

The design of high speed intercity tubes, to move vehicles, removes the largest issue I've had with fully electric cars -- which is energy density. We'd need to streamline the queues for loading and unloading, and possibly have multiple transport "lanes" but it's a viable alternative to gasoline based engines needing to chug along interstates, and should also vastly increase safety.