Elon Musk

Technoking indeed

The explosion of yet another (3rd so far this year) SpaceX rocket prototype yesterday showered metal and potentially toxic debris far into the sensitive tidal flats of the South Bay Coastal Preserve, Boca Chica State Park and the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. On the right side of the highway is the SpaceX fenceline, and on the left is what has historically been one of the single most important sites for wintering Piping Plovers and thousands of other shorebirds. Since SpaceX gets County orders to close the highway and beach most weekdays we have had to cut back extensively on our monitoring there. Sadly, most news stories about these explosions neglect to mention the extensive damage being done to these highly unique coastal public lands.

https://www.facebook.com/CBBEPCoastalBirds/photos/a.1410276219230980/2985174601741126/

Lmaoooooooo pic.twitter.com/DXU5e3dGJ7

— logo, uncool zoned dad (@logophobe) April 5, 2021

this is really something!

Footage of what it looks like when a @Tesla is traveling through the @boringcompany’s Convention Center Loop. #vegas #boringcompany pic.twitter.com/ph1DJoTYBi

— Mick Akers (@mickakers) April 9, 2021

remarkable! maybe they can build a scale model of london in the parking area and play the peter pan title music.

Apartheid guy is an arsonist

Lol fair

behold: the las vegas tradition of using light design to distract you from what a bad time you're having https://t.co/Yaot4SRTPJ

— Scott Frazier (@safrazie) April 9, 2021

can you carry open bottles in the tunnel, though

My neighbor just bailed on getting a Tesla solar roof installed after like 8 months of runaround from the company.

Actual footage of Elon's Tesla submarine attacking a competitor's loop prototype:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/5e/23/9b/5e239b8a83739df81702fdd2e80af52d.gif

In more serious/interesting news, I did hear a good Freakanomics episode that addressed the challenges self-driving cars face with roundabouts:

https://freakonomics.com/podcast/roundabouts/

When a human driver enters a roundabout, Cameron explains:
CAMERON: What you’re doing is having to do this intricate dance almost, with all of these other people. You’re basically taking social cues from all of these different vehicles and you’re doing that visually.

As we’ve been hearing, learning this roundabout dance can be a challenge for human drivers.

CAMERON: In a robo-taxi, that same challenge is present. You have to be able to perceive these objects early.

Objects including not just other vehicles but pedestrians, cyclists, dogs.

CAMERON: You have to be able to understand their intent, understand their direction, their speed. And all of these things make for a particularly interesting challenge. And a robo-taxi is not quite as aggressive as a human driver. So it’s very conservative.

And in some circumstances:

CAMERON: You cannot be conservative. It just doesn’t work. You’d be stuck there at the entrance to a roundabout forever.

"Hey, kids --- Big Ben! Parliament!"

lol that's in the episode!

BERESFORD: It was that Lampoon with Chevy Chase — that’s so much stuck in the psychology of the Americans, that you’re just going to go ’round and ’round forever on a roundabout.
You may remember this scene:
Chevy CHASE: I guess what we do is just drive around the circle here.
It’s from the 1985 film National Lampoon’s European Vacation. Chevy Chase plays the American dad Clark Griswold, driving around a London roundabout with his family.
CHASE: Hey look, kids! There’s Big Ben and there’s Parliament!

hahahahhaa

Stephenson's Rocket, a fucking oak barrel on wheels, went faster than the Las Vegas Loop in 1829 and hauled more people pic.twitter.com/X90A3uWZfe

— 🌈Wings & Strings (@TomColetti) April 9, 2021

Elon would go faster if he sealed himself in a barrel and got thrown over Niagara falls.

I like subways.

Why would you replace subways?

because theyre competition for your car business

Seems very unsafe, also.

Kylie Jenner drives through Deathtrap Tunnel

Kylie Jenner showing off The Boring Company tunnel in Las Vegas 👀

🔥 @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/wwN0yc9zIx

— SAINT (@saint) April 14, 2021

the cars must be on self driving mode in the tunnel no

makes sense, but doesn't look like it from that video.

good, because Jenners don't have a good track record when driving their own vehicles

thankfully there have been no incidents to date of accidents involving self-driving cars

That's what the 🔥 emoji represents

— G (@grova) April 15, 2021

feels like an admission that their self-driving tech is at the single lane tunnel level.

how long before someone crashes their car in here and they can't get it out? like, a week?

That's the whole plan: a car will get stuck, and Elon will announce a new Land Submarine that will drill down and rescue it.

until he is then stepped on by a Kaiju

feels like an admission that their self-driving tech is at the single lane tunnel level.

― microsloth fig stimulator (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, April 16, 2021 10:00 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

at 35mph max lol

I'm more confused by the fact that Tesla actively chose to release videos of it than I am at how much it sucks.

i feel like a lot of the excitement & novelty theyre feeling in that vid has got to be down to the fact that ppl that wealthy are never actually in the front seat of a moving vehicle seeing the road through the windshield

the indescribable thrill of crushing claustrophobia

going to redub the clip with the tunnel scene from willy wonka

Just wait until these dorks see the United terminal at O'Hare:
https://vinepair.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/ohaire-internal.jpg

Or that shitty ride at Epcot:

https://www.themeparktourist.com/files/Journey%2520into%2520Imagination.jpg

is that elon on the right?

This is the man who will own Mars

He can have it, imo, but only if he moves there.

he has....two weeks

l-r: elon musk, grimes

^not even funny anymore at this point, tbh.

Well a lot of Tesla's concepts are a figment of his imagination

Lol I could write code for self driving cars in a single lane tunnel

could do this with two, possibly one lego mindstorms reflectometer

"lidar is a crutch"
*builds tunnel underground for self-driving cars without lidar*

i tuned out the whole boring story - is the idea that there will be endless lines of cars moving on these things? like a pullover lane where the passenger steps in, and then the boring car automatically moves onto the main 35mph track alongside it and whooshes to the destination?

i mean, i guess

jfc

i think the best way to understand the boring company is its anti public transportation propaganda in service of selling more cars

what if we take all the existing cars and then pay elon musk to reconfigure them to work on his boring lanes

what if we connect all the existing cars together, in a loop, and then put that loop around the moon. then everyone would just hop in their cars, twist the loop, and you're on the moon

like it doesnt have to be successful at transporting people to accomplish its goal which is to undermine public transportation via introducing chaos into the process of doing public transpo xp self