Elon Musk

lol that's in the episode!

BERESFORD: It was that Lampoon with Chevy Chase — that’s so much stuck in the psychology of the Americans, that you’re just going to go ’round and ’round forever on a roundabout.
You may remember this scene:
Chevy CHASE: I guess what we do is just drive around the circle here.
It’s from the 1985 film National Lampoon’s European Vacation. Chevy Chase plays the American dad Clark Griswold, driving around a London roundabout with his family.
CHASE: Hey look, kids! There’s Big Ben and there’s Parliament!

hahahahhaa

Stephenson's Rocket, a fucking oak barrel on wheels, went faster than the Las Vegas Loop in 1829 and hauled more people pic.twitter.com/X90A3uWZfe

— 🌈Wings & Strings (@TomColetti) April 9, 2021

Elon would go faster if he sealed himself in a barrel and got thrown over Niagara falls.

I like subways.

Why would you replace subways?

because theyre competition for your car business

Seems very unsafe, also.

Kylie Jenner drives through Deathtrap Tunnel

Kylie Jenner showing off The Boring Company tunnel in Las Vegas 👀

🔥 @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/wwN0yc9zIx

— SAINT (@saint) April 14, 2021

the cars must be on self driving mode in the tunnel no

makes sense, but doesn't look like it from that video.

good, because Jenners don't have a good track record when driving their own vehicles

thankfully there have been no incidents to date of accidents involving self-driving cars

That's what the 🔥 emoji represents

— G (@grova) April 15, 2021

feels like an admission that their self-driving tech is at the single lane tunnel level.

how long before someone crashes their car in here and they can't get it out? like, a week?

That's the whole plan: a car will get stuck, and Elon will announce a new Land Submarine that will drill down and rescue it.

until he is then stepped on by a Kaiju

feels like an admission that their self-driving tech is at the single lane tunnel level.

― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, April 16, 2021 10:00 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

at 35mph max lol

I'm more confused by the fact that Tesla actively chose to release videos of it than I am at how much it sucks.

i feel like a lot of the excitement & novelty theyre feeling in that vid has got to be down to the fact that ppl that wealthy are never actually in the front seat of a moving vehicle seeing the road through the windshield

the indescribable thrill of crushing claustrophobia

going to redub the clip with the tunnel scene from willy wonka

Just wait until these dorks see the United terminal at O'Hare:
https://vinepair.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ohaire-internal.jpg

Or that shitty ride at Epcot:

https://www.themeparktourist.com/files/Journey%2520into%2520Imagination.jpg

is that elon on the right?

This is the man who will own Mars

He can have it, imo, but only if he moves there.

he has....two weeks

l-r: elon musk, grimes

^not even funny anymore at this point, tbh.

Well a lot of Tesla's concepts are a figment of his imagination

Lol I could write code for self driving cars in a single lane tunnel

could do this with two, possibly one lego mindstorms reflectometer

"lidar is a crutch"
*builds tunnel underground for self-driving cars without lidar*

i tuned out the whole boring story - is the idea that there will be endless lines of cars moving on these things? like a pullover lane where the passenger steps in, and then the boring car automatically moves onto the main 35mph track alongside it and whooshes to the destination?

i mean, i guess

jfc

i think the best way to understand the boring company is its anti public transportation propaganda in service of selling more cars

what if we take all the existing cars and then pay elon musk to reconfigure them to work on his boring lanes

what if we connect all the existing cars together, in a loop, and then put that loop around the moon. then everyone would just hop in their cars, twist the loop, and you're on the moon

like it doesnt have to be successful at transporting people to accomplish its goal which is to undermine public transportation via introducing chaos into the process of doing public transpo xp self

heh, you might be right. you think it's kind of like a loss-leader, worth the billions of losses because it opens up other ways that he can make $ in a non-boring fashion?

theres that and also hes not a totally rational actor who has made it clear he just hates public transportation on its on merits and he prob also believes his own bs so i mean why not dig some tunnels and make ridiculous claims

whatever you think of bezos, he is clearly a good executive and logistics is the original hard operational problem. musk just seems insane, maybe 0.5% of the world (i.e. US men aged 20-30) find his shtick compelling, and the fact that he is the world's second richest man is proof that nothing matters.

i get a panic attack just thinking about riding in that thing

it looks too narrow to open the doors (which probably don't work unless you turn the engine off and on again)

half-kidding but: Elon as a public figure makes me regret that Freudianism has fallen so out of favor

Engineer who worked on this tunnel for a bit before quitting messaged me other day and said “basically all the engineers did was work to make sure that the fancy lights looked cool” and that people trashing the tunnel - bc cars are slow, etc - are way more right than they realize https://t.co/arWokSQxdR

— Ryan Deto (@RyanDeto) April 16, 2021

I don’t think it’s possible to be any more right about Musk than I think I am

I swear this whole project is a death trap.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387887/elon-musk-spacex-win-nasa-lunar-lander-contract-artemis

finally...mankind will touch the surface of the moon

i have to admit it would be kind of funny if we found out that elon musk faked his moon landing