I like subways.
Why would you replace subways?
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 10 April 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link
because theyre competition for your car business
― lag∞n, Saturday, 10 April 2021 02:33 (three years ago) link
Seems very unsafe, also.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 10 April 2021 02:47 (three years ago) link
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
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 16 April 2021 13:49 (three years ago) link
the cars must be on self driving mode in the tunnel no
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
makes sense, but doesn't look like it from that video.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 16 April 2021 13:55 (three years ago) link
good, because Jenners don't have a good track record when driving their own vehicles
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 April 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
thankfully there have been no incidents to date of accidents involving self-driving cars
― sgt. pepper's one-and-only bobo honkin' band (Doctor Casino), Friday, 16 April 2021 13:56 (three years ago) link
That's what the 🔥 emoji represents— G (@grova) April 15, 2021
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 16 April 2021 13:59 (three years ago) link
feels like an admission that their self-driving tech is at the single lane tunnel level.
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:00 (three years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 14:05 (three years ago) link
until he is then stepped on by a Kaiju
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:10 (three years ago) link
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, April 16, 2021 10:00 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
at 35mph max lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 14:23 (three years ago) link
I'm more confused by the fact that Tesla actively chose to release videos of it than I am at how much it sucks.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:30 (three years ago) link
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
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 16 April 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
the indescribable thrill of crushing claustrophobia
― rob, Friday, 16 April 2021 14:48 (three years ago) link
going to redub the clip with the tunnel scene from willy wonka
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Friday, 16 April 2021 14:51 (three years ago) link
Just wait until these dorks see the United terminal at O'Hare:https://vinepair.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ohaire-internal.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:09 (three years ago) link
Or that shitty ride at Epcot:
https://www.themeparktourist.com/files/Journey%2520into%2520Imagination.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:11 (three years ago) link
is that elon on the right?
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 16 April 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link
This is the man who will own Mars
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 16 April 2021 15:45 (three years ago) link
He can have it, imo, but only if he moves there.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
he has....two weeks
― P-Zunit (Neanderthal), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
l-r: elon musk, grimes
― peace, man, Friday, 16 April 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
^not even funny anymore at this point, tbh.
― peace, man, Friday, 16 April 2021 16:13 (three years ago) link
Well a lot of Tesla's concepts are a figment of his imagination
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:14 (three years ago) link
Lol I could write code for self driving cars in a single lane tunnel
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
could do this with two, possibly one lego mindstorms reflectometer
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:44 (three years ago) link
"lidar is a crutch"*builds tunnel underground for self-driving cars without lidar*
― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:47 (three years ago) link
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
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 16:50 (three years ago) link
i think the best way to understand the boring company is its anti public transportation propaganda in service of selling more cars
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:00 (three years ago) link
what if we take all the existing cars and then pay elon musk to reconfigure them to work on his boring lanes
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
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
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:02 (three years ago) link
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?
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:04 (three years ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:07 (three years ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
i get a panic attack just thinking about riding in that thing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:12 (three years ago) link
it looks too narrow to open the doors (which probably don't work unless you turn the engine off and on again)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
half-kidding but: Elon as a public figure makes me regret that Freudianism has fallen so out of favor
― rob, Friday, 16 April 2021 17:15 (three years ago) link
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
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 16 April 2021 17:29 (three years ago) link
I don’t think it’s possible to be any more right about Musk than I think I am
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 16 April 2021 18:04 (three years ago) link
I swear this whole project is a death trap.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 16 April 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387887/elon-musk-spacex-win-nasa-lunar-lander-contract-artemis
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 16 April 2021 18:46 (three years ago) link
finally...mankind will touch the surface of the moon
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 April 2021 19:13 (three years ago) link
i have to admit it would be kind of funny if we found out that elon musk faked his moon landing
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 16 April 2021 19:18 (three years ago) link
I see Musky as this guy who controls/pays lots of really smart people then steals all the credit
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 16 April 2021 19:48 (three years ago) link
He is the Thomas Kinkade of tech.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 16 April 2021 20:07 (three years ago) link
controls/pays lots of really smart people
to do what
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Friday, 16 April 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link
stuff that he steals the credit for
― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map), Friday, 16 April 2021 21:51 (three years ago) link