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Now imagine one of those Teslas catches fire while everyone is trapped in the tunnel.
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Honestly it's only a matter of time. Part of me is horrified by the thought, but another part of me is 100% :sicko-flipped: ready for it. I even have family that own Tesla's, but I cannot wait for the hype around these piece of shit cars and this piece of shit fail-son capitalist to die.
Optimistic of you to think that the hype will die once his shitty cars kill people
I think a mass casualty event and dragging multiple scorched/unrecognizable bodies from a tunnel will in fact dampen the mood, yes.
Honestly they might start doing the "they were no angel" shit for the victims if it happens enough.
"Downtown Austin's 'Stone Cold' loop line experienced a fire today when notorious public urinator John Chudsoy drove a burning Model Y, killing him and his passenger, 3 year old attempted pigtail puller Billy Chudsoy. It's not known why John Chudsoy failed to keep his vehicle un-ignited."
Well it's a good thing Teslas don't have a reputation for spontaneously combusting...
That video gave me so much anxiety. He kept talking about one of the doors being locked but not being told much else. Horrifying to be locked underground in a car.
Yeah, but could a train from 1829 be an effective vehicle for grifting?
But wouldn't a train from 1829 be prone to random and intense explosions/fires, HUH???1?
O wait
O shit
O fuck
I love the muskbros that show up to remind you that it doesn't need an escape staircase in that tunnel because it's short enough that laws dont require it have one. In the event of a fire, you're supposed to calmly and orderly walk the whole length of the tunnel to one of the main exits.
Also while there's more cars driving towards you, into the flames
And the tunnel is just big enough to fit one of their shitty cars. I'm not even sure you can open the door fully while the car is in the tunnel.
Cars that will try to reverse to get out of the tunnel. With stressed drivers. And people on foot fleeing the fire. One of these cases is going to get stuck, locking the others in place.
The tunnel is rapidly filling with toxic smoke that, if it doesn't kill you, will give you permanent lung damage...
This project will definitely end in a big fire that kills a few dozen people. Hopefully :melon-musk:'s empire crashes then, but I doubt it. If anything he'll earn more money by advertising a new AI-driven fire suppression system
Elon Musk is trying to create a new lithium ion based Centralia from scratch
Truly, that fucking city is a monument to the hubris of man. Even the ancient Greek playwrights couldn't have come up with something better.
This is just the convention center. Not quite a mile/1.5k. Vegas has agreed to a loop that connects the casinos to the airport and their football stadium. 30 miles/48k that is going to be a nonstop clusterfuck
Lmao it's so fucking short they could've just built the moving walkway things you see at airports and saved millions
Even 500 feet of a closed single-lane tunnel is a death trap waiting to happen. A dozen shuttle buses could've reduced traffic by at least as much for a fraction of the cost, and wouldn't be a death trap waiting to happen.
Also curious that the driver is clearly driving the whole time even though this was claimed to be an automated system and the drivers will be removed aaany day now.
No, you see, the wheel steering the driver performs is actually being used to mine Bitcoin.
No, you missed the fine print, it's not 'automated driving,' it's 'hands free' steering, meaning you have to use your knees.
Chad Chinese road tunnel couple of subtle differences between this and the LVCC loop.
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Oh now that's just nonsense. There's absolutely nothing dangerous about putting a bunch of large explosive battery packs on wheels into a narrow tube with no clear emergency exit.
On the other side, the lithium heated blast furnace this thing becomes if there ever was a fire means you don't have to do any cleanup as there isn't gonna be anything left. Hell there's a good chance the thing just melts itself away, lithium burns absurdly hot.
This right here is my jam. Oh, you probably haven't heard of it, it's pretty underground.
Oh, same, I also just want them to mention it briefly to laugh at it. I should have been more clear.
Their episode about musk and the Las Vegas loop is definitely one of their funniest
so is this a tesla-only circlejerk or can normal people also wait in line?
You get down to a station where you have to call an uber that can only be tesla and eventually it will emerge from the tunnel
noooooo, imagine spending tens of thousands of dollars to be an Uber driver in a big pvc pipe
IIRC the only one of these that actually exists is some short route between either an airport and convention center or the convention center and a different part of the same convention center, and it is in every respect just a really terrible version of a shuttle service.
exactly. make an electric bus, slap a shitty T on it and you'll have a more efficient version of this
in that case, what's stopping me from walking down the car tunnel and stopping traffic? it isn't like a cop car can come down there so you could simply run in the opposite direction :galaxy-brain:
imagine calling an Uber to circumvent security at the ends and making a getaway
what’s stopping me from walking down the car tunnel and stopping traffic?
Well the cars just murdering you and/or exploding for one
Wow even the video of the unjammed part of the tunnel is enough to make me claustrophobic, and I normally only have issues with that in tight sweaters
