Wouldn’t it be more efficient to use rails on the surface? Like a monorail or something similar, digging stuff out is very energy inefficient compared to just building it on top.
If it is on the surface it needs to mix with humans. safety becomes a hard problem. run underground and your safety becomes the simple there is nobody there - if there was the power would have been cut and so the vehicles can’t move.
Insurance cannot bring a dead person back to life. It can give the heirs money, but that is not the same. On the surface humans will need to cross the roads and we don’t know how to do that safely. In tunnels humans will never need to cross these vehicles and thus it is much easier to not kill someone.
You can get insurance to cover whatever you want. Normally it isn’t cost effective to get insurance for small losses from a minor accident, but you can get it if you really want (you will need to see a specialty provider)
Wouldn’t it be more efficient to use rails on the surface? Like a monorail or something similar, digging stuff out is very energy inefficient compared to just building it on top.
If it is on the surface it needs to mix with humans. safety becomes a hard problem. run underground and your safety becomes the simple there is nobody there - if there was the power would have been cut and so the vehicles can’t move.
Counter point, fire. If one thing catches fire down there the tube is fucked. And might collapse.
But nobody is there so insurance replaces the package and you dig a new tunnel.
Why would insurance not cover accidents on the surface? That makes no sense, and a tube collapse would be a problem for whatever is above.
Insurance cannot bring a dead person back to life. It can give the heirs money, but that is not the same. On the surface humans will need to cross the roads and we don’t know how to do that safely. In tunnels humans will never need to cross these vehicles and thus it is much easier to not kill someone.
Idk man, a tram ain’t killing hundreds of people either
And no insurance will cover something that will get destroyed completely in a minor accident.
Trams have drivers to hit the emergency stop.
You can get insurance to cover whatever you want. Normally it isn’t cost effective to get insurance for small losses from a minor accident, but you can get it if you really want (you will need to see a specialty provider)
Bro no fucking insurance in the world covers nuclear power plants or similar things, they are “insured” by the country they are in.
There are autonomous trams and there is no problem in having a automatic system hit the stop either…