At the core of Musk’s vision for the Boring Company and autonomously driven robotaxis is the notion of “individualized mass transit.” In 2017, he told Wired he hated mass transit. “It’s a pain in the ass,” he said, claiming no one likes buses or trains because there’s full of “a bunch of random strangers” that could include serial killers — a rich person’s delusion if I’ve ever heard one. Instead, he claimed everyone would prefer individualized transport, refusing to accept that individualized instead of collective mobility is at the root of what he hates so much about modern transportation: all that traffic.
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