[Eupalinos of Megara appears out of a time portal from ancient Ionia] Wow, you guys must be really good at digging tunnels by now, right?
The agency ultimately fined Boring more than $112,000 over eight violations it deemed “serious.” The company is, as Musk businesses are wont to do, contesting it.
We’ve gone from wrist slaps to someone blowing gently in your face.
Fuck everything about these tunnels.
- He proposed them to stop the city from implementing a subway system (fuck that shit).
- He first proposed them as being effectively a subway/hyperloop but then stopped when that cost too much money
- He then turned them into just underground private roadways accessible only to teslas.
Fuck that shit. The problem the city was trying to solve wasn’t “We need more highspeed roads” it’s “We need to be able move more people”. And musk torpedoed that with a pointless underground tunnel.
Subways would have been way cheaper to operate, served more locations, and would not have been this stupid exclusive system for tesla owners to show off an LED light display.
If I was the nafarious type…
I’m sure one could buy an old used Tesla that barely works.
Then drive it into the tunnel with a gas can and lighter on the passenger seat. Have a friend stand in the way blocking others from driving in behind you.
I wonder what would happen if it caught fire in the tunnel?
Would sprinkler systems take over? Would the tunnel burn and collapse as you walk out the other end so it’s never used again?
Good thing I’m not that type of person…
You don’t bring your own tesla to the tunnel. You use the ones they provide which probably all have the speed limit mode enabled.
Did the tunnel go through a buried toxic waste dump?
Just call it vegas like a normal person.
God I hate Elon Musk. What a fucking twat.
he really is the worst isn’t he
He is. Did you see the crap he posted on Twitter about the Baltimore bridge? Fucking dumbass.
Edit: found the screen cap:
This is major RTS gamer brain. In those games, the scarce resources are the raw materials, because it’s more dramatic to send your harvesters into the unknown to be attacked by enemies, while the actual knowhow on how to build stuff is passively “researched”. So if you need to build a bridge, you magically have the planners and the engineeers and the building crew ready and waiting, but they need steel and stone to start, which you never have, because you just panic-built a bunker to defend your base.
In the real world, getting enough steel to build a bridge is easy enough - I imagine the lead time to be a couple months. Actually finding a team able to plan and construct one is another matter.
Yeah, let’s reuse steel that has been weakened by unknown amounts and rebuild the bridge with the exact same flaws that caused it to be vulnerable to this type of collision.
The repair should be put to commercial bid with a massive incentive for early and safe completion.
Fast, safe, cheap: pick two.
But aren’t all of these public works projects already put out for bid and include penalties for not meeting deadlines?
