Elon Musk's Las Vegas Tunnel Kind Of Sucks?
jalopnik.com/elon-musks-las-vegas-tunnel-kind...Posted Aug 3, 2019, 8:21 PM UTC
Posted Aug 3, 2019, 8:21 PM UTC
Musk companies seem to be hitting the wall a lot of others do. You can’t repeatedly promise something outlandish expect to hit it every time. Sure, sometimes all the engineers and employees will find a way to make it happen and destroy themselves crunching nonstop to hit a publicity deadline. But it really backfires when people can’t do it anymore.
Some of the changes to the business model of Boring Co. seem like backwards steps, imo.
Sour grapes from the losing monorail competitor. Even if not driverless at first, it will be amazing.
Musk is a hypeman who does all this bullshit to sell his cars. The guy is a fraud with grandiose ideas and little to bring them to reality.
Do you follow SpaceX at all? How is he a fraud. They are pulling off many firsts and out performing he shit out of NASA and the conventional contractors
muskrats always downvote the truth
And has helped to drastically reduce the cost of rockets.
the deal is that elon musk had an idea about what to do with a tunnel that didn't quite pan out, but that doesn't matter.
see he had to make some public display to show his progress and they slapped something together that could be presented to morons. but what really matters is whether he can dig tunnels fast and cheap. if he can't then it wouldn't matter at all how great he can utilize tunnels, if he can it doesn't matter how bad he can use them because someone else will come along and use them better. but you can't make a video to demonstrate digging tunnels that isn't just showing off your new tunnel. and he just showed it off badly.
So far they haven't developed any boring technology at all, they use a standard TBM they bought. They can dig a tunnel "cheaper" than a standard subway because they just dig a much smaller sewer tube that doesn't have any of the expensive features of digging tunnels (i.e. platforms, merges, emergency features, ventilation, etc).