Despite safety, labor, and environmental violations, Boring faces modest fines and continues construction.
Ah, the cost of doing business.
Anyone remember the HyPeRlOoP? Eloser clearly doesn't.
Drilling tunnels under Las Vegas? C'mon... This is the plot of a heist movie, not reality.
Shit like this is a potential problem where the tunnel gets transferred to a shell company, the tunnel doesn’t make money or beings to fail, the shell declares bankruptcy and the tunnel and all of its problems get handed off to the taxpayer.
Pumping that shit with Tesla©® concrete will solve all problems.
Gotta love that capitalism's "efficiency" that everyone keeps mentioning as a positive
It excels at making money as efficiently as it can, the issue is the “efficient” action of dumping unprofitable things on the public. I’m expecting all the multiple ~~thousands~~ millions of gas wells that were drilled over the last 20 years to be transferred to a shell, bankrupted, and dumped on the public for the massive cleanup required
Too bad capitalism is the only system 😔
We’re told it is by the people who don’t want any changes made because it will interfere with their profits. I’m not suggesting communism or something, so no need for making things a hyperbolic binary choice. Capitalism can absolutely be reined in with strong social policy without being socialist, but again, point #1, that cuts in to power and the profits of those who don’t want to lose any.
Boring....boring....boring...
Musk is a dangerous idiot and I hope he dies.
Advocating for a persons death is also dangerous, but unfortunately in some cases there is no counter argument to be made
He's not a person, he's a parasite.
I won’t say I’m advocating it but as the saying goes…some obituaries I will read with delight.
There can always be a counter argument
Unfortunately, people dont really like torture
Its less efficient and doesnt accomplish the goal better, but its not dangerous i think
All I see is free housing and the possibly for casinos to collapse. Also cars being forced underground if it somehow doesn't fail.
I support all of these things.
Eventually one of his cars is going to blow up in the tunnel and they won't be able to get fire and rescue personnel to it.
"some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I am willing to make." - Lord Farquaad
Not only that, but this just sounds like a fuck load of lithium bombs waiting for a fuse. That fuse would be water buildup in the tunnels. You couldn't pay me to be in a Tesla underground with that same companies workmanship.
ah, yes, dipshit manchild reinventing the subway. I'd almost forgotten about that.
Someone really needs to show him public transit sometime. Then again, if it keeps him busy, perhaps we should just let him. I would rather his attention be focused on making a shittier version of a subway than on trying to fuck up Europe too.
I have news for you: he not “busy” with anything past the idea phase. How can you tell? You don’t see news pieces about Boring Company workers being effectively forced into slave labor a la Twitter post-takeover and Tesla during the Model 3 roll-out. He expects everything to run like a startup because it’s the only thing he’s ever remotely “managed” in his life.
yeah but… he's not doing shit. he uses his only power, money, to delegate. the trouble is that as the world's richest dickhead, he has a lot of power to delegate
Bro, Las Vegas is gonna collapse for this shit. "Let's just drill a bunch of random tunnels beneath our DESERT CITY with no oversight or plan, THAT'LL GO WELL!!!" - a moron. When the ground gives out and half the strip collapses into it, I doubt Musk will pay the fees for it.
If the tunnel has decent structural integrity, Musk will be long dead before he would need to pay the piper on this one.
50 years from now, teenagers in Las Vegas will tell stories about the "secret tunnels under the city." And at some point a very expensive building is going to collapse into a tunnel and the kids will be shocked that the urban legend was real.
And everyone will have basically forgotten that Elon Musk was responsible for, and later abandoned, this ill-conceived vanity project.
Are they not already telling those stories?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/people-live-tunnels-under-las-vegas/
Creating a strong tunnel is the easy part though. The hardest part is the boring itself and safety for people in the tunnel. Tunnel fires are far more common than a collapsing tunnel. So I'd be more scared of the extremely dangerous firehazard you'll be cruising in at high speeds than the tunnel itself.
There is no high speed, it's not a hyperloop, it's just some Teslas bumbling through tunnels, sometimes successfully.
Teslas tend to get very toasty when crashing? I'm not sure I'd want to be in a tunnel with a lot of them. Imagine if it'll become like the Salang Tunnel after a while?
I hope it ruins the foundation of one of the bigger casinos, the fight would be amazing.
I'm hoping it makes the site of the new stadium they are building for the A's cave in, they did Oakland dirty and deserve whatever bad karma they get.
Vegas floods almost every time it rains. Sometimes it floods when it rains nearby like on Mt Charleston. I've nearly avoided flash floods hiking in red rock canyon, and seen people on the news get killed in washes on a regular basis. I trust the casinos to care more about their victims than president Elon.
I was looking for this response, as I thought the same, those tunnels are gonna flood so easily.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company spent years pitching cities on a novel solution to traffic, an underground transportation system to whisk passengers through tunnels in electric vehicles.
Author has never seen a subway... Or doesn't know what "novel" means.
Comparing it to a subway is totally unmerited. This system is all the bad parts of a subway combined with all the bad parts of roads, with not an ounce of the benefits. It's truly a stupid thing.
I wasn't comparing musk's solution to a subway. I was comparing the author's description of "an underground transportation system to whisk passengers through tunnels in electric vehicles" to a subway system.
It's just going to be a private highway for Tesla's to drive in lol. Sooooo dumb.
And for people to die in if one of them catches fire.
What, that would never happen. Tesla has a bulletproof reliability rating and rock solid quality control. They use extensive reporting techniques to catch issues before they happen. Their self driving feature is 1000 time better than a human, hence why we need to dig a tunnel to isolate them from everything else.
If the tunnel could collapse while Elmo is visiting it, that would we great.
I know for a fact Elon still hasn’t contacted 811 before they started digging
When casinos start falling over maybe they will wake up.
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