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Jarrett Walker

Siri, show me the most inefficient possible use of space, infrastructure, and labor. #ElonMusk #LasVegas #TheBoringCompany

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mann_ey

@humantransit Omg, this is unbelievable! 🤣🤣🤣

The only improvement I'd make is to use a kid's train instead of the cars. Much classier. And it can go choo choo which is fun! 🚂

Alex T Newman

@humantransit wow, those little unmanned electric trams at airports really put this to shame.

En Buen Ora 🆗

@alextnewman @humantransit way more use-value from the moving sidewalks *inside* airports

Rob Galanakis

@humantransit I've only heard about this, not watched it, and it's even worse than I thought.

BGBG

@humantransit seems like a couple of cuts between 00:40 and 00:50 to avoid showing traffic 🤦‍♂️

JQ

@humantransit
Ya, embarrassing, and highlights the dominant culture of the industry. Wonder if the city will put it to better use after the conference? It's needed some kind of underground #transit infrastructure for ever now.

Human 3500

@suldrew @humantransit I really want to know how long ago that queuing and slow driving took.

Also, those weren't driverless, were they? Lots of people managing the queues and driving.

Automated train seems more efficient.

suldrew 🚲🏳️‍🌈

@human3500 @humantransit it’s absurd! Someday the $ to operate it will run out

Human 3500

@suldrew @humantransit Are you saying Elon musk had an idea that was absurd?

Maybe it's all funded by Twitter profit.

Doctor Memory

@humantransit I love how they seem to have made the tunnels unnecessarily curvy, so that when this inevitably goes tits-up the city won't even have the option of installing a proper people-mover into them.

Shatter

@memory @humantransit

I was just thinking that Walt Disney invented a better system in the 50s that's more efficient and automated.

It would work in those tunnels and move more people 24/7.

Chloe Raccoon

@humantransit @nigelsezyarr "I tried this and got back an image of the palace of westminster" ;)

nigelsezyarr

@chloeraccoon Hehehe.

Huh. Someday soon the Canadian Mint will start issuing coins with Chuck's face on 'em. That seems so wrong

Chloe Raccoon

@nigelsezyarr Remember, the palace of westminister is where the UK government sits, not the monarch...

nigelsezyarr

@chloeraccoon Ah! Honest mistake. I've been averting my eyes from UK politics, it seems too depressing.

Lee 🌏

@humantransit
I think this is a great idea!
All cars are removed from the street and roads are replaced with trams, cycle paths, parks, tree lined walking paths 🤔👍

Spoopy

@MrLee @humantransit that isn’t even remotely what’s going on here, dingus

jakob reading solarpunk

@humantransit It's genius. They even put him in a car with complete strangers so no one can say "at least it's more private than a train". 🤣

Carlos Rodríguez

@humantransit one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen for sure.

SkiBu Michael Smith🚎:verified:

@humantransit @suldrew really Disappointing that a CES attendee is completely non-discerning when it comes to technology. Sure, they are even more clueless about transportation issues in general, but so are most people.

moooping

@humantransit it’s very difficult to imagine something less cool (within the realms of urban transport that is)

jonny (good kind)

@humantransit that is somehow even more absurd than people just driving their own cars in it

Fletch…?

@humantransit This is the dumbest waste of tax dollars I have seen recently.

I can’t say “ever” because I’ve seen tax dollars pay for a LOOOOOT of stupid shit and the jury’s still out on which one’s the worst.

Maxi 10x 💉

Heise-Bericht:

#VegasLoop ausprobiert: Musks dümmste Idee ever?

»Jeder Wagen nimmt bis zu vier Gäste auf, plus Fahrer – obwohl es sich bei der Strecke geradezu aufdrängt, fahren die Autos keineswegs autonom!«

heise.de/meinung/Vegas-Loop-au

David O'Brien

@humantransit This is literally the shittest taxi tank ever.

Fucsake.

Steve Williams

@humantransit
He invented a space age Clown Car, and had the foresight to dig its grave at the same time.
Kinda clever.

Oscar Bazaldua

@humantransit @malwaretech how long until Elon connects all teslas as a train and calls it a Tesla centipede?

Oscar Bazaldua

@humantransit geez I still can't believe it. The only people who can be impressed by this is the people who have never ride a bus/train

Aldo Bruno

@humantransit
Technology drives human evolution. The end point of evolution is extinction. This POS hole in the ground is proof positive we are very near that point.

River

@humantransit Oh wow, that's my fill of stupidity for the day.

P J Evans

@humantransit
They could do air-conditioned tunnels with stores and stuff, and access to hotels, or overhead walkways, for all the money they spent on that.

Braw ☕🏳️‍🌈

@humantransit it gotta be a joke right? r-right? pleaase I beg you tell me it's a joke 😭

mazzeri

@humantransit One thing these future plans never take into consideration is the heavily inebriated guy throwing up all over the back seat. Not so glossy sci-fi then, is it.

eons Luna

@humantransit even a freaking regular bus service would be orders of magnitude more efficient than this.

Chuso Pérez

@humantransit "Elon's answer to traffic" is... a tunnel for cabs with fancy lights?

You may call me 'V' 🐧

@humantransit this is the F worst subway I've ever imagined. It's even worst in these videos.

marie_al

@humantransit healthier just to walk…lasy Americans

Carsten Habicht

@humantransit So they built something like a subway but with more personnel overhead and cars? 🤦‍♂️

SP

@humantransit mf really made a worse subway and people suck his dick because he posts about memes and crypto scams he profits from

LeaveNothingForTheFuture

@humantransit so even in a closed system a Tesla can't drive autonomously?

LN :anarchoheart3:

@LeaveNothingForTheFuture @humantransit I'm honestly not even sure it's a closed system. He shows cars going in from the surface so that implies at least some of the cars drive back outside the loop, probably because there's not enough passenger demand in the other direction.

Given that the entire selling point was having private "cabins" I also think him being grouped with other passengers was an attempt to increase throughput, which is known to be abysmal.

Kat :ablobcatattentionreverse:

@humantransit I don't understand. It looks like a Uber in a tunnel that's sold like a ride and a giant ad for Teslas.. that doesn't even make them look special.

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