Elon Musk

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

heh, you might be right. you think it's kind of like a loss-leader, worth the billions of losses because it opens up other ways that he can make $ in a non-boring fashion?

theres that and also hes not a totally rational actor who has made it clear he just hates public transportation on its on merits and he prob also believes his own bs so i mean why not dig some tunnels and make ridiculous claims

whatever you think of bezos, he is clearly a good executive and logistics is the original hard operational problem. musk just seems insane, maybe 0.5% of the world (i.e. US men aged 20-30) find his shtick compelling, and the fact that he is the world's second richest man is proof that nothing matters.

i get a panic attack just thinking about riding in that thing

it looks too narrow to open the doors (which probably don't work unless you turn the engine off and on again)

half-kidding but: Elon as a public figure makes me regret that Freudianism has fallen so out of favor

Engineer who worked on this tunnel for a bit before quitting messaged me other day and said “basically all the engineers did was work to make sure that the fancy lights looked cool” and that people trashing the tunnel - bc cars are slow, etc - are way more right than they realize https://t.co/arWokSQxdR

— Ryan Deto (@RyanDeto) April 16, 2021

I don’t think it’s possible to be any more right about Musk than I think I am

I swear this whole project is a death trap.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/16/22387887/elon-musk-spacex-win-nasa-lunar-lander-contract-artemis

finally...mankind will touch the surface of the moon

i have to admit it would be kind of funny if we found out that elon musk faked his moon landing

I see Musky as this guy who controls/pays lots of really smart people then steals all the credit

He is the Thomas Kinkade of tech.

controls/pays lots of really smart people

to do what

stuff that he steals the credit for

tbf space exploration feels like a major grift

> Acting NASA administrator Steve Jurczyk said Friday that under President Biden’s budget request, the agency’s Artemis mission has a new goal: in addition to landing the first woman on the Moon, it will also send the first person of color to the lunar surface. So far, the only Earthlings to touch the Moon’s surface have been white men.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22375899/nasa-first-person-of-color-artemis-mission-moon-woman

I hope this prevents cops from shooting black kids.

i think it makes a lot of sense that his market worth is so huge because he's basically an avatar for the continued dominance of car culture. it's certainly not because he's competent in any way. he's kind of a similar figure to trump in the sense of being a stand-in for the relevance of a huge reactionary industry where his incompetence is a feature. like his real asset is just the fact that he's a stupid blowhard true believer.

stuff that he steals the credit for

all they do is make robot cars that murder people, spaceships that explode on the ground, and imaginary submarines that get too mad at invisible paedophiles to get around to existing

eh if you're into space stuff than SpaceX making launches way way cheaper is a big deal. and jump-starting the electric vehicle market (sorry too lazy to change bad metaphor) was a big deal.

but yes, launching a suicidal self-driving feature was bad. the tunnel under Las Vegas seems like the dumbest so far (someone pointed out that they're too small for people to open their doors, so no escape in an emergency ... AND you can't get help because they're too small for emergency vehicles. and it was an awful idea anyway. trains! just make trains!)

what good is SpaceX going to go for anything?

Ruining the night sky with orbiting trash and satellites.

I feel like the only real motivation is some pathetic billionaire sci fi escape fantasy of escaping a dying Earth and living on a space station

yeah I'm not into space stuff either but I know smart devoted geeks who worship SpaceX so ... like so many things ... it might be useless, but the engineering was good.

I’ll give Tesla some credit for making a fully electric EV seem like a luxury vehicle - there are a lot of legitimately cool and impressive things about them. This has almost nothing to do with Musk himself, however - in fact, the more I read about this company the more I’ve come to the conclusion that his contribution to the company is generally limited to stupid, gimmicky features and bad QC as a result of making dumb promises. That said he does appeal to a certain type of mega online dork and that alone has probably sold thousands of cars.