Elon Musk

Elon Musk-rats are some weird fucks

Kinda wish he'd get hit by a truck and have Guy Fieri bake him into some new Flavortown concoction

i called him a dumb fuck yesterday and it kinda blew up, had to mute the convo before the stans got there

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You’re not going to solve the problem by insisting that people use a form of transportation that is objectively less convenient than cars.

— Regyptian Slut (@RegyptianStrut) September 16, 2020

markets determine correctness; if there are enough rich people who want to drive, they should be allowed to turn the city into a honking traffic sewer for everybody else, there are no other options

The car is so convenient there must be tunnels under other tunnels to conduct them.

(a cursory glance at google was giving me a doorless lift that moved in a continuous loop and went over the top as a paternoster. not what i was after. which they used in mines...)

fuck cars. yeah, now and then I like going for a drive, but one of the things I love about visiting NYC is that I don't gotta rent one, the subways are easy to navigate, cheap, and hey, it's part of the experience.

all we have in Florida is the terrible Lynx bus system and the very limited SunRail. I wish I didn't have to drive.

but it's more important to get somewhere at 1:18 pm than a subway getting you there at 1:25 pm

lmao i love the idea that we can tackle climate change without any sacrifice convenience

clearly the best way to combat climate change it to keep pumping out $80,000 luxury sedans

serious question: is Tesla as a company even carbon neutral??

the car is so convenient, all it asks of us is the melting of the polar ice caps by its byproducts, decades of murderous imperialist policy to provide its fuel, the complete transformation of landscapes at a continental scale to create markets for it, and ongoing mass death caused by its operation by barely-trained amateurs. until you can answer to that unprecedented level of convenience, then *shrug* i guess there's a reason they call elon a genius and YOU'RE a nobody!!

I really believe that people who think “cars are convenient” have literally never had the chance to live anywhere that’s walkable, with limited parking and decent public transportation. Cars are astoundingly inconvenient and expensive to boot.

cars are in almost every way a huge pain in the ass

Cars are fun to drive, that’s about it

most of the time theyre not even fun youre just trying to get somewhere in a deadly machine that you control and theres a ton more deadly machines around too, and dont even get me started on parking!!

I own a car I bought before moving to a city, and when I even remember that it exists I mostly hope someone steals it

h8 cars so fkin much
h8 car culture
h8 how everyone in a car culture intense place talks about cars

h8 old cars, new cars
h8 car shows
also driving is so painful and hard on your body

last point so otm, I used to love driving when I was young and supple.

I would gladly sit on a bus for 30mins extra just to not have to deal with the sustained adrenaline-pumping stress of urban driving; hell even taking a cab/car can be terrifying

i have a hooptie right now so that probably has something to do with it but i swear more people drive like maniacs now than ever. feels like constantly dodging bullets out there!

what we absolutely need is dark tunnels full of computer controlled cars with nothing to anchor perspective, definitely the way forward

working from home has been such an unexpected joy, and a big part of that is no longer wasting 30 minutes a day on a highway, and saving $80 a month (at least) in gas.

save on wear n tear too

NB I still read Jalopnik and can’t wait for The Grand Tour to come out with more episodes. I hate cars too but I’m drawn to single-minded enthusiasts of all stripes (also see: me still reading The Ringer despite having stopped following any sports)

Lagoon I thought you liked cars these days?

i like cars... in some ways

map just described the shitty climax of the shitty fourth Fast & Furious movie, maybe we just need to get Musk to watch some of the other ones and we can look forward to new Teslas tuned up for "drifting"

it's called Fast & Fourious, you're welcome

i also hate cars and cannot drive. but i've spent lockdown watching literally hindreds of episodes of Wheeler Dealers, Fantomworks, Fast and Loud, Misfit Garage etc.

Left lagoon, right me

added a couple updates in response to feedback pic.twitter.com/YKMUqQpttC

— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) September 17, 2020

left caek right me

https://i.imgur.com/JTEx4x6.png

lmao I can't get this out of my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvSJORwb134

I saw the Starlink for the first time last week on a clear sky, and it must have been the big one because this thing stretched *far* across the sky. Looked like an armada of spaceships invading, quite something, wasn't expecting the satellites to be so close together.

@BoringPrufrock @BoringLoopLV @boringcompany this scenario shows 12pax AEV arriving every 6 seconds at a station with 5mph speed and 40s average dwell time per bay. Its a bit chaotic but the whole LVCC Loop system does end up moving 21,600 people per hour. pic.twitter.com/4dZUESsrXL

— Phil Harrison (@phlhr) November 14, 2020

Comments have been counting the number of people run over in this simulation.

what if I got in on the wrong side of the car when I was picked up - do I have to scoot across the seat to get out, or get murdered by the next car in line?

now, what if all the cars were connected, and moved in sync between some sort of "station" built for unloading them? just a thought.

Why not just invent teleporting pods instead of wasting time with these cars.

lol nice simulation good work

my friend has a Tesla and he took me inside.

i was converted into digital data.

fuck

at the end of this the bottom car disgorges like 20 people

feel like musk could stand to read this guy's book https://www.ft.com/content/b0c29ff7-e35e-397d-bea4-a7ca36e0ea15

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/bus-best-public-transit-cities/574399/

The teslas should be able to fling and capture passengers via coupling through large passenger windows.

i always hear about lyft's end goal being self driving cars and, having driven lyft, it's fucking mystifying to me, like do they know how fucking chaotic people are? especially at bar time?

like picking someone up a club downtown, fucking drunk people tottering all over, crossing in the middle of the street, cops on horseback walking around, oh wait we're not on that side of the block we're by this other place oh wait one of our group is missing oh hey i know we said to drop off at my apartment but chelsea needs to be dropped off at her apartment can we swing by there too? wait don't go that way i know a better way

thats why you just run them over

Dead people can't give you a bad rating

My city refuses to even consider buses so we have 12-16 passenger van city-sponsored rideshare bullshit instead. It's the worst of all worlds - small and inconvenient without regular stopping points, drivers who aren't professionals at moving people around. I get passed by the vans doing 15-20 over on semi-residential streets regularly.

wait don't go that way i know a better way

I mean as a passenger I have certainly been in Lyfts that took a very bad route because the algo instructed them to, presumably the auto-driven cars would do this as well

yeah I mean you what the app tells you to, I've also had people who insisted on a different route that was an absolute clusterfuck

at the end of this the bottom car disgorges like 20 people

lol yeah theres like no rhyme or reason to the #s of people exiting those cars, 15+ passengers exit at least 3 times by my count

inching closer to mass transit imo - sounds like a dead end project!

SpaceX Mars prototype blew up during a test flight today. This is considered a success, due to Musk's policy to "embrace mishaps during the early stages of new spacefaring technology development."