The Boring Company's project in Las Vegas was supposed to be the first real demonstration of Elon Musk's vision for re-imagining public transportation in cities. Musk, who has criticized traditional public transit such as subways, contended he could do much better. He tweeted out visions in 2018 of glass pods, picking up relaxed passengers from thousands of stations the size of single parking spaces that blend into cities, and said it would look "a bit" like that. While more images are still to come, so far the rendered reality is turning out wildly differently.
I honestly cannot fucking wait for this dystopian techfuedal future. All public transport will be ride shares and the government buying fleets of Teslas because, guess what, luxury electric cars aren't actually a good business model. Then they put teslas in large, rushed, shoddy vacuum tunnels. So people will suffocate in some cases. Teslas will overheat because they don't have air to cool them. There will be some sort of meltdown in the tunnels. People will die. So Tony Shart will start fucking with our dwindling fresh water supply to cool his tunnels. We'll get contaminated ground water and giant sinkholes. All so some fucking south african nerd doesn't have to come to terms with being a shit human being. When all that happens the government will decide that letting Uber own everything is easier. They'll buy out Tesla and Elon can move on to building a tomb on mars as his main grift.
I'm calling it now: the Las Vegas Loop will run for less than two years, because one of the Teslas (which are being driven 18 hours per day, I remind you) will catch fire in the tunnel during a major convention and it will be a disaster that results in at least a dozen deaths.
Right! And no consideration for wheelchair access and no thought on how not to allow unauthorized vehicles from just driving into the tunnels. Man, I love American exceptionalism
Elon's so smart. I mean they're basically subways that carry fewer people, cost more, and are less environmentally friendly. What's not to like?
I honestly cannot fucking wait for this dystopian techfuedal future. All public transport will be ride shares and the government buying fleets of Teslas because, guess what, luxury electric cars aren't actually a good business model. Then they put teslas in large, rushed, shoddy vacuum tunnels. So people will suffocate in some cases. Teslas will overheat because they don't have air to cool them. There will be some sort of meltdown in the tunnels. People will die. So Tony Shart will start fucking with our dwindling fresh water supply to cool his tunnels. We'll get contaminated ground water and giant sinkholes. All so some fucking south african nerd doesn't have to come to terms with being a shit human being. When all that happens the government will decide that letting Uber own everything is easier. They'll buy out Tesla and Elon can move on to building a tomb on mars as his main grift.
Idk an electrical fire in a narrow tunnel deep underground sounds like loads of fun to me
I'm calling it now: the Las Vegas Loop will run for less than two years, because one of the Teslas (which are being driven 18 hours per day, I remind you) will catch fire in the tunnel during a major convention and it will be a disaster that results in at least a dozen deaths.
Right! And no consideration for wheelchair access and no thought on how not to allow unauthorized vehicles from just driving into the tunnels. Man, I love American exceptionalism