Yes but it could be that he sees those goals as mostly solved problems that just require time to fully blossom. If you take the scaling to extreme size for solar roof and powerwall then you could say that he finished creating them in plan 2 and is scaling them in part 3. Planning for the future doesn't mean the old goals are any less important.

Whether you believe it or not tesla is planning on full autonomy so all of this is with that in mind. That's a great graphic except that only 5% of people use public transportation so only planning for that case is not practical. It can be integrated to our current roads it would be like having a fast lane except instead of having to take up all the space that interstates take up it can be underground. If the cost of riding in an autonomous vehicle is less than the cost of taking the train or the bus how are you going to convince people to take the bus or the train when they can get door to door service for less cost.

And those are fair and I think it is a project with a lot of ifs and unknowns that may not work out. From my understanding and what I thought was interesting is that it could be faster than a normal road and you can build multiple layers of tunnels. You can't really build roads in 3d right now you just have the one outer layer and building a road above that road wouldn't make sense and would look ugly. I'm not saying it will work out but if they can get the costs and time to build lowered and make it safe why not at least entertain the idea?

Well no it's just an underground road. Cars driving underground doesn't make it a subway.

Why do you say that? Just because a subway and what they are doing are both in tunnels doesn't make them the same thing. You could argue that they are just underground roads and not needed but not the same thing as a subway.

You also said it yourself we have been making subways for years and you think they should focus on making those better but if they go with the hyperloop why don't you see it as an improved somewhat different subway system that needs new tunnels?

I have no clue if the whole tunnel thing will workout and even if they are actually trying to make it happen or not but I don't understand your dislike for the idea and I would like to understand it.

If there isn't any current infrastructure why do you think that we should have to base all future infrastructure on the way subways work and just improving those? Why can this be something along with subways?