Elon Musk

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."

EGG on Musk

would actually pay for an Elon-breaking machine

Has this guy invented a space bus that runs on earth highways yet? How about terrestrial boats that drive (on wheels!) through tunnels *under* the water's surface rather than float over the top?

Sad to say that Elon probably missed his opportunity on this, though
https://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_3bb6e264-6eb6-4e8b-8723-64334ea568a5?wid=325&hei=325&qlt=80&fmt=pjpeg

musk's genius brain coming at us with SpaceMall

Wait was there another crash today? I know there was this crash 6 days ago:

Belly flop, engine restart, flip, and boom.

SpaceX’s Starship SN8 rocket spectacularly guided itself back to a landing pad in South Texas after a high-altitude test flight Wednesday, but it couldn’t nail the touchdown.

See our video of the entire flight: https://t.co/fUlhxwYevv pic.twitter.com/1odZgAS3R1

— Spaceflight Now (@SpaceflightNow) December 10, 2020

trying to observe that from the perspective a future archivist/researcher.

the people of earth...are cheering for the test of a self-landing reusable rocket...they cheer for it as it deploys its automated systems and seems to be landing correctly...and then when it crashes and explodes...they cheer with even more enthusiasm

...unclear what 2020 people want or think

I think multi-billion dollar space ship crashing to earth pretty much sums 2020 up.

I love that this billionaire dumbass with unlimited resources keeps trying and failing to do something NASA did in the 80s

i believe nasa had some crashes back in the day as well, though! rocket science is probably pretty hard

and i think the idea is to continue the idea of reusable components that nasa had partially accomplished (the space shuttles)