It’s time to be honest about Musk’s vacuum tube to nowhere

  • @filister
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    9411 months ago

    Don’t forget the “Hyperloop” in Las Vegas, which is just a tunnel where Teslas are driving people around. IMO that’s the stupidest and the least efficient use of this tunnel.

    The cars are not even self-driving, and mind you this is a closed system and easier to implement self-driving. So far with his self-driving copium, and robo taxis bullshit.

    • Flying Squid
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      3711 months ago

      That’s more about Elon hating mass public transportation. Probably because it involves being close to poor people.

    • threelonmusketeers
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      11 months ago

      Don’t forget the “Hyperloop” in Las Vegas, which is just a tunnel where Teslas are driving people around.

      Isn’t that The Loop, not a Hyperloop?

      • @A_Random_Idiot
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        1911 months ago

        whatever it is, its a human barbecue waiting to happen with how tight and coffinlike the tunnel is from what i’ve seen of videos.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        Yeah he was supposedly building a hyperloop but we got cars in tunnel instead and our dumb ass politicians took our tax money to pay for it

      • @blazeknave
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        -1811 months ago

        Why do you still like him after he has shown who he really is? The quality of his products?

        • threelonmusketeers
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          11 months ago

          I didn’t say I like him. I find the companies he is affiliated with interesting.

    • lemmyvore
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      11 months ago

      this is a closed system and easier to implement self-driving

      Lol, they tried and it didn’t work well, even in a closed system. There was a whistleblower among the drivers a while ago. They were officially in the cars just to keep an eye of things but in reality they had to take over constantly, and they all had contracts that tried to keep them from talking about it. Oh yeah and they got scripts they had to follow if passengers asked questions about Musk or the project. 😄

      Edit: here’s some articles:

      https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/28/read-the-script-every-driver-for-elon-musks-las-vegas-loop-must-learn/

      https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tunnels-boring-company-tesla-drivers-las-vegas-techcrunch-2021-7?op=1

      • @filister
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        211 months ago

        I didn’t know about that. Good one.

    • @Kbobabob
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      011 months ago

      Don’t forget the “Hyperloop” in Las Vegas

      Isn’t that literally what they’re talking about in the article?

      • threelonmusketeers
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        911 months ago

        No, the news here is that Richard Branson’s Hyperloop One company is shutting down. I don’t believe that is related to the Loop (not Hyperloop) project in Las Vegas.