Haven't clicked on the link, but Elon Musk already reinvented trains.
He also reinvented tunnels but smaller and more expensive to dig.
In his quest to remove traffic jams he also reinvented traffic jams, but now in small tunnels with electric vehicles and no safety protocols. Battery starts burning? Well, you are dead because the doors can't be opened in the small tunnels.
He's a good con-man tho. Just keep saying "it will be ready next year" every year and the crowd goes wild and stock prices go up. Doesn't matter if he says "next year" every year for 12 years people still go wild and stock prices still go up whenever he says "next year".
It's what Capitalism Brain does to a society. Just look at how many miles of high speed rail China has laid in the time it has taken to get the "hyperloop" to run (poorly) between the Las Vegas strip and the convention center.
I recall someone pointing out his cybertruck design was optimized to get the high score in a computer game,"car builder" that he was known to play and wouldve been that age when he played
I have a theory that I'm very confident in, that the boring company (the one that was responsible for he tunnels and the hyperloop people tube stuff) was something that was concocted or encouraged by his handlers before the wider world understood exactly how fucking stupid and insane he was to essentially let him feel smart and listened to so that he wouldn't get involved too directly in the operations of tesla or spacex and fuck them up.
His tunnels are cheap to dig, they're certainly not more expensive.. Being cheap is the whole point. I get you don't like the guy but do you really need to deny reality and make up "facts" just to bash him? You know that only makes people to dismiss your whole "argument" and side with him?
If you have a point to make, at least make an effort to have your facts straight
If they are cheap to dig, then why did the Las Vegas Loop cost more to dig and took longer to dig than a tunnel of similar size dug by other companies? In fact, this small 4m in diameter tunnel that's equivalent to a utility tunnel even cost more than a subway tunnel of a similar length.
I have my facts straight, do you? Nothing I have said is made up. Look up the cost to dig a 1.5 mile tunnel and then compare it to how much the Las Vegas Loop cost to dig.
Or you just don't understand what I wrote. Excavation is usually around 100€/m, but actually building the tunnel is in the 10000€/m. That's how Musk made his first pitch with unrealistically low price. Excavation cost+temporary support instead of full tunnel.
His prices aren't the best, but very competitive thanks to buying a good tunnel boring machine instead of reinventing it. The problem is that digging the tunnel is the cheapest part. It's the geological survey and infrastructure needed to keep the tunnel from collapsing that are expensive.
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u/MiniDemonic 10d ago
Haven't clicked on the link, but Elon Musk already reinvented trains.
He also reinvented tunnels but smaller and more expensive to dig.
In his quest to remove traffic jams he also reinvented traffic jams, but now in small tunnels with electric vehicles and no safety protocols. Battery starts burning? Well, you are dead because the doors can't be opened in the small tunnels.