Elon Musk: The Future of the City

A Reaction Paper

Elon Musk or Elon Reeve Musk is a business magnate, industrial

designer, and engineer. He is the founder, CEO, CTO, and chief designer of
SpaceX; early investor, CEO, and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of
The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-
chairman of OpenAI and recently, got the position or richest man in the
world.
Elon Musk is known for its vision to modernize and at the same time,
make the world sustainable.
Elon Musk has a plan for the so-called “future of the city” they are
more like the cities we watch in a sci-fi movie.
A city where the travel time from city-to-city is reduced form up to 50-
80% from its original speed today. In Elon Musk's vision, people will be
carried by rockets-which Elon Musk's another business, the SpaceX.
Also, with his company, the Boring Company which has the vision to
use tunnels for another way of transportation. It also reduces the travel time
which gives us, humans more productivity time and time for families.
In cities, car traffic is one of the biggest problem the needs immediate
solution and action. In the Philippines, car traffic wastes about 3.5 billion
pesos in a day according to Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
and commuters waste an average of 54 hours a year in traffic, study says -
CNN.
Elon Musk's vision may help but for me, in my opinion, especially on
the tunnels for transportation, subways can do the job and even costs
cheaper than the individual tunnels that have shown in the video. A careful
urban planning and a 100% coordination with the leaders can solve the
problem. Besides, it is what planners are made for.
About the energy sustainability that have mentioned in the video, by
using renewable energy, it really helps with the less emission of carbon in
the atmosphere. By using batteries to power an entire cities can make a big
change to carbon footprint. According to National Geography Society, cities
emit 60% more carbon than thought-a new analysis finds that city planners
have been undercounting greenhouse gas emissions from a key contributor.
So if the renewable energy is implemented, especially on cars, as a typical
passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year.
This assumes the average gasoline vehicle on the road today has a fuel
economy of about 22.0 miles per gallon and drives around 11,500 miles per
year. Every gallon of gasoline burned creates about 8,887 grams of CO2-
carbon footprint will drastically reduce to a large amount thus, saving the
earth from heating.
By tweaking Musk's vision a little bit, proper planning from the planners and
coordination from the leaders and a renewable source of energy, a
sustainable city will rise, a city that gives happiness to people and also to
mother earth and city where everyone wants to live in.