Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Not Only Boring, But Useless

If you want the longish and cogent explanation of why Elon Musk's just-announced "boring" car tunnel makes no sense (um, how do you get all the cars into it and out of it?), read this.

But if you already know it makes no sense, you can enjoy these tweets that just make fun of it:

Elon’s car-tunnel would need to push through 1.2 cars per second to have a capacity similar to a subway. Imagine a car being pumped out on to a street at a rate of 1.2 per second. The world’s most massive car pile up! Think of the parking that would be required! #DumbandDumber
Jennifer Keesmaat

This represents an amazing amount of ingenuity, expense and time spent on a system that is less efficient at addressing traffic woes than any bus.
Jonathan O'Connell

oh shit they solved the public transportation crisis by [checks notes] helping like seven rich people skip traffic
@reticentbias

subways, now with a significant financial barrier to entry!
@ilovepets420

Rich man want car go fast, vroom vroom🚘. Poor people's cars in rich man's way, no vroom
@Newbornstranger

Even better- a ONE LANE road that you could be trapped in! AMAZING INNOVATION, BRO!
@RussiawithoutBS

Also, it costs an order of magnitude more and solves what problem, exactly?
@snarqueduct

wow you invented a road amazing
@gin_and_tacos

The future of transport is very slow elevators for cars.
Tyler Schmall

You do not understand. It is better if just this one car gets to go fast.
Gabriel Gundacker

build a train, nerds
Buncahn


1 comment:

Michael Leddy said...

The sooner we send Elon Musk to Mars, the better. :)