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[image] Sometimes it feels like folks in US would build anything but efficient transit 🤦
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Also I haven't really looked into this Vegas Loop thing until now, and the tweet was right, it only connects a convention center and a hotel LOL
Last I heard too the cars aren’t autonomous in the tunnel either. They’re driven by real people. The “hyperloop” idea was actually to try and kill the high speed rail project in Cali. Elon is a piece of shit and tried to tank our train, which has helped to extend the project further and increase scrutiny of it.
Yeah, that was one of the ways people realized 'oh, Tesla FSD is complete bullshit.'
If you can't even automate a car driving in an extremely simplified and controlled environment, like a set track with a 2 or 3 'stops'... your FSD is obviously crap.
The worst part about it is the hyper loop is an objectively cool idea, impractical but fucking sweet, that definitely didn't originate from Elon. He only jumped on it to try and divert cash from highspeed rail and even then it just evolved into lol put cars in a tunnel I own.
Not a cool idea, it's a retarded idea, unless we are saying making something super expensive and very impractical is cool, in which case, it's cool I guess, like a Bugatti Veyron, just even stupider for it to exist while there are children starving in the world.
Good point I was wrong, I forgot it's impossible to spend money on more than one thing at a a time.
There is spending money and utter waste of money, the hyperloop as a concept is fucking idiotic, it's trains but worse in every conceivable way other than from the standpoint of one individual trying to get fast from one point to another, and much more expensive
You get the worst of both worlds, inefficiency of transportation capacity of a car with limitations of driving destinations of a rail.
And apparently even the self driving doesn't even work there (you would think this would be an easy feature to add)
So it's just a worse tunnel then
Ha
it gets worse: the loading and unloading takes several minutes because all the cars have to back out into traffic, so congestion in the tunnel is common. the max speed is something like 15km/h because there are too many cars moving in the system. and the tunnel is too narrow for you to be able to open the door, meaning that in the event of a fire, everyone just dies.
EV batteries fire + narrow place seems like the worst ever combo
How the heck is this project even approved lol
murica, sensible regulations are socialism, please add 5 parking spaces for every 10 square feet of your store, thanks
Is it true that you actually have to add a parking space as a building owner in US? lol
If you have half an hour free, and want to spend it feeling a justified combination of nauseous horror and smug superiority, have I got a video for you!
Climate Town - Parking Laws are Strangling America
pretty sure CO2 + narrow place would be worse
Of course Americans are in love with cars, but isn’t the best solution for Vegas an above ground streetcar? Relatively short distance, sufficient space (so no need to dig underground), high capacity.
I've been stunned that the Vegas strip doesn't have some kind of real transit system for decades now.
They didn't even let the new HSR line come to the Strip itself. It stops outside of the area and people have to taxi in. Why the casino owners weren't fighting over who got the HSR stop in their casino I'll never understand. Wouldn't you want those trains to drop off thousands of possible marks right on your doorstep? No, instead they get dropped in the desert and have to wander to wherever in town.