Recently, Elon Musk relayed a news article on China's railway construction on Twitter under the headline "Chinese workers built a train station within nine hours." In response, Musk commented: 'China is on advanced infrastructure More than 100 times faster than in the United States. "He later said:" Higher safety standards, environmental requirements and labor costs are only a small part of the reason, not least because bureaucracy prevails and the private sector is based on the percentage of project costs Return, and therefore always maximize the cost.
In addition to the well-known rocket company, Musk has a special preference for the railway.In 2013, he proposed the construction of 'super high speed rail', 'capsule' train placed in a vacuum pipe is a solar-powered super-high-speed urban transport system, Passengers can arrive in San Francisco within 30 minutes from Los Angeles, and at the current speed of the plane, traveling between the two places also takes an hour.
For Musk's super-high-speed rail project, another technology giant Bill Gates recently commented that I'm not sure the super-high-speed rail is not realistic, because you want to ensure that its safety is quite hard.