what we absolutely need is dark tunnels full of computer controlled cars with nothing to anchor perspective, definitely the way forward
― Give me a Chad Smith-type feel (map), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
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.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:09 (three years ago) link
save on wear n tear too
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
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)
― sound of scampo talk to me (El Tomboto), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 19:19 (three years ago) link
Lagoon I thought you liked cars these days?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 16 September 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
i like cars... in some ways
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
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"
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 17 September 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
it's called Fast & Fourious, you're welcome
― erratic wolf angular guitarist (sic), Thursday, 17 September 2020 02:08 (three years ago) link
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.
― koogs, Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
Left lagoon, right me
added a couple updates in response to feedback pic.twitter.com/YKMUqQpttC— Michael Tae Sweeney (@mtsw) September 17, 2020
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 17 September 2020 17:34 (three years ago) link
left caek right me
https://i.imgur.com/JTEx4x6.png
― lag∞n, Thursday, 17 September 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
lmao I can't get this out of my head
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvSJORwb134
― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 September 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
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.
― Two Meter Peter (Ste), Tuesday, 27 October 2020 08:54 (three years ago) link
@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
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Monday, 30 November 2020 17:51 (three years ago) link
Comments have been counting the number of people run over in this simulation.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 November 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
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.
― vcrash, Monday, 30 November 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
Why not just invent teleporting pods instead of wasting time with these cars.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 November 2020 17:56 (three years ago) link
lol nice simulation good work
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 November 2020 17:59 (three years ago) link
my friend has a Tesla and he took me inside.
i was converted into digital data.
fuck
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Monday, 30 November 2020 18:01 (three years ago) link
at the end of this the bottom car disgorges like 20 people
― a certain derecho (brownie), Monday, 30 November 2020 18:18 (three years ago) link
feel like musk could stand to read this guy's book https://www.ft.com/content/b0c29ff7-e35e-397d-bea4-a7ca36e0ea15
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 30 November 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/bus-best-public-transit-cities/574399/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 30 November 2020 18:33 (three years ago) link
The teslas should be able to fling and capture passengers via coupling through large passenger windows.
― foopin posts and pissin shits (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
thats why you just run them over
― lag∞n, Monday, 30 November 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
Dead people can't give you a bad rating
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
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.
― onlyfans.com/hunterb (milo z), Monday, 30 November 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
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
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
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
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:26 (three years ago) link
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
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Monday, 30 November 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
inching closer to mass transit imo - sounds like a dead end project!
― a certain derecho (brownie), Monday, 30 November 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
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."
― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 08:50 (three years ago) link
EGG on Musk
― nashwan, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 09:30 (three years ago) link
would actually pay for an Elon-breaking machine
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
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, thoughhttps://target.scene7.com/is/image/Target/GUEST_3bb6e264-6eb6-4e8b-8723-64334ea568a5?wid=325&hei=325&qlt=80&fmt=pjpeg
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 13:31 (three years ago) link
musk's genius brain coming at us with SpaceMall
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 13:48 (three years ago) link
― Yes Virginia, there really is a (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
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
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
I think multi-billion dollar space ship crashing to earth pretty much sums 2020 up.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
I love that this billionaire dumbass with unlimited resources keeps trying and failing to do something NASA did in the 80s
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
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)
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
karl, this thread is for posting stuff like "can this guy even wipe himself?" after somebody links a tweet
― kniphofia face (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 17:54 (three years ago) link
Wait was there another crash today? I know there was this crash 6 days ago
this was almost certainly me misreading something late and tired, ty for video
― huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
Has Elon Musk thought about radically disrupting the personal fragrance industry? Because that really seems like what he was born to do.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
pic.twitter.com/qbNT1dUsED— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 14, 2020
in the thread's defense, it is p hard to believe this guy can wipe himself
― loose Orwellian mobs (rob), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
richest person in the world as of today
― rob, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:05 (three years ago) link
i find that bizarre
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
and sickening, obv
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
both are valid responses
― rob, Thursday, 7 January 2021 17:08 (three years ago) link