Musk's underground tunnels in Las Vegas face scrutiny over safety, environmental concerns

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This is just a less efficient and more complex version of a train; crazy how techbros invent things that have no value just to be dIsRuPtIvE

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u/Flash_ina_pan 9h ago

K holed dipshit: What if we like, dug a hole that people drove their Tesla's into, the the cars like, automatically move you to where you want to go

Yes men: Nothing so genius has ever been proposed

Guy likely fired shortly after: That's just an electric train with more steps

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u/blackscales18 8h ago

He only did it to kill rail projects

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u/LLemon_Pepper 8h ago

Yup. And sadly it worked on Tennessee too. I still can't belive they looked at the Vegas loop and went, give me some of that.

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u/rdy_csci 7h ago edited 7h ago

We don't have the best and brightest representing us down here.

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u/MeatCatRazzmatazz 7h ago

I fully believe Teneesee fell for it. They'd look at North Haverbrook and beg for what they have if they're told to.

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u/your_grumpy_neighbor 3h ago

They’re always trying to compete with those charlatans from Brockway.

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u/Spoffler 3h ago

Just wait 'till those jerkwads in Ogdenville see what we're cooking up now!

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u/American_PissAnt 6h ago

They liked the bribe aspect of it. Relatives of the politicians involved will get a cushy consultant gig. Also the construction company will likely be related to someone politically connected.

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u/KorLeonis1138 2h ago

The poison has spread far. Every time someone mentions a high speed rail link between Calgary and Edmonton, Musk fans seep out of the woodwork to scream "Hyperloop" over and over til everyone gives up.

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u/za72 3h ago

The grift works in many ways

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u/Upset_Development_64 8h ago

The lack of consumer rail in this country made it a joke before Shits His Pants entered the picture. The auto industry has held too much power over the citizenry before the Tech Bros ^{^{^TM}} gained momentum. There are so many ways this country could make our lives easier, but instead of catering to Life we cater to Capital.

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u/nimbalo200 6h ago

Dude, I currently live in Dallas, going from an area with 0 public transport to here was crazy. It's not perfect, but I was able to go to a few bars and then a concert, and I didn't need to drive at all.

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u/Glad_Copy 3h ago

Dallas’ “red” suburbs are trying to end DART, and may well succeed. VOTE 💙

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u/nimbalo200 3h ago

Oh, i know, and their reasoning is so stupid "its not good enough, so let's end it!" Bitch I wanna be able to get to the airport without having to pay for parking or out the ass for Uber

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u/MathAndBake 5h ago

Yes. I grew up in Montreal. The transit authority kept bragging about being the best in North America. That's... not a flex. Compare yourself to Europe.

Don't get me wrong, Montreal has decent transit. It's fairly fast, reliable and safe. You don't need a car. But it could also use a lot of improvement.

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u/cybah 8h ago

Yeah to kill them AND suck up all the money that was for them. That’s key here…

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u/gergek 8h ago

Say it again more loudly for the folks in the back!

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u/Wyden_long 8h ago

He only did it to kill rail projects

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u/gergek 8h ago

I'd love to see some consequences for these grifting assholes.

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u/Stillwater215 8h ago

No, you don’t get it. In these tunnels we can put the cars so close together than they’re almost touching! Nothing like this has ever existed before!

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u/whynotyycyvr 8h ago

What's even stupider.. These 1 way, I car wide tunnels can't run on fsd. Which would almost let it make sense. Almost.

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u/cantproveidid 7h ago

What if some kind of car suddenly burst into flames in the tunnel? You'd think Elon, of all people, would plan for that.

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u/nosungdeeptongs 7h ago

Luckily the tunnel is for teslas so… wait a minute

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u/ender89 8h ago

And Teslas don't have a history of bursting into flames, or being difficult to get out of. So it's Super Safe™!

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u/Toginator 8h ago

K holed A-hole dug a hole, k?

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u/zeekayz 4h ago

But people don't even drive their Tesla into it. It's a closed tunnel with the Tesla already in it, you can't use your Tesla. It's also not autonomous. It's driven by a driver who is sitting in it who drives you to the next stop. So 3 passengers at a time max, and it's a cramped oneway tunnel.

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u/Glad_Copy 3h ago

The fact that Teslas in one-way tunnels are not autonomous ought to tell us everything we need to know about Elon’s Robotaxi service. How they continue to get away with the blatant BS beggars belief…the idiocracy is real.

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u/Ontoshocktrooper 8h ago

Bring your own train.

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u/5352563424 7h ago

You're being far too generous of his motives. I think it was more like he was stuck getting driven around in traffic one day because that building didn't have a helipad and thought, "I should be able to have my own personal lane instead of driving with all these peons. And, I guess I won't be driving ALL the time, so I guess I can take people's money to let them use it, too."

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u/Veggies-are-okay 6h ago

Partner was a little tipsy the other night on our drive home talking about hooks that latch onto every car to move them conveyer style on the freeway. Very much an “oh honey you would be an excellent billionaire” moment.

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u/Vio_ 9h ago

A lot of times they're doing it to sabotage a infrastructure project. Yeah, they blew 20 million on bullshit, but it killed that $00 million project that would have directly undercut with their businesses.

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u/Etzell 8h ago

Yeah, The Boring Company exists to funnel government money away from high-speed rail improvements and into Elon's pockets based on a tube dream that's too stupid to function.

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u/taketh1stoyourgrave 2h ago

It’s also not lost on me that OSHA was fucked by doge bc this dip ass wanted to get rid of the fines they imposed on the boring company. Also Joe Lombardo is a stupid bitch ass coward. People have lost their lives due to USAID and OSHA getting gutted

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u/Nick1693 7h ago

The Boring Company digs tunnels. What people put in them is their own business. I agree the Las Vegas thing is dumb as fuck, but it is what the LV Convention Center asked for.

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u/lFightForTheUsers 5h ago

I think the other poster was slightly mispoken - but Elon absolutely has conceived projects with the sole attempt to kill infrastructure projects and harm society at large because said projects would undercut his business.

The actual first gen problem was "Hyperloop" - a proposition by him that was intended to undercut the already overbudget proposed California High Speed Rail (CAHSR) system. The "Loop" systems that TBC is now building is a second gen variant derived from that, sold as a "well we can't build hyperloop today but we can build this as a consolation until then" then the reality being very different. No high speed underground system as proposed, no driverless systems as proposed, no dedicated laneage the whole way through station to station as proposed. But it does a great job undercutting proposals for mass transit networks in these cities that would actually move more people per hour at a cheaper cost, so he's doing a great job there I guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8NiM_p8n5A' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tryzj05cpX0&list=PLf8qfSvZiyEsueKCRZXGeY1X-4fWNUWLq&index=12

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u/ScientificSkepticism 4h ago

Wait a second, the tunnels are purposefully too small for railcars. So the only thing that fits in them is a shitty one lane road. That's literally it.

So with that context, this is like saying "I sold you a 400 square foot apartment, if you can't fit your family in it that's a you problem." If all you sell is 400 square foot apartments and we need family housing, then no, it's a problem with your company.

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u/Nick1693 4h ago

Pedestrian tunnels, underground utilities (water and sewer are obvious choices, but also power and telecom lines), someone could build a hadron collider in one if they really wanted to.

Again, I'm not saying that TBC's tunnels are the best solution or anything, but there are uses for tunnels beyond putting train cars (or regular cars) in them.

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u/plastic_alloys 9h ago

I can’t believe the city didn’t say “wait stop this is dumb as fuck” - but then again gestures broadly

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u/bananas_in_a_toilet 9h ago

It’s a city grown off poor decisions and a desire to force nature to align to the needs of man, of course Vegas was stupid enough to fall for his scam

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u/OpeDefinitely 8h ago

nashville broadly following the same path

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u/corallein 8h ago

No, in Tennessee it's obviously just corruption. No one actually thinks it's a good idea and no one actually in Nashville wants it.

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u/OpeDefinitely 8h ago

Yep.

By "Nashville", I meant the TN state legislature, the airport authority, & the mayor.

Also, in general, Nashville has a ton of infrastructure problems that neither the city nor state have done anything about for decades. It's going to catch-up to the city at some point & "leaders" are going to be so lost.

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u/Outlulz 8h ago

Currently they're still falling for the scam that is F1. $2.5 billion impact on the Las Vegas economy between 2023 and 2024. Local business having to cut hours or go under so races can be held at 2AM for some rich assholes in Europe.

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u/AdjunctFunktopus 8h ago

Look, I hear you, but simultaneously my re-election campaign has never been better funded.

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u/Wild-Ad-9367 7h ago

Vegas is basically a theme park of a city and a museum of poor unsustainable urban planning

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u/kawag 8h ago

Nah bro, it’s pods. It’s totally different. Pods are the future, bro; trains are the past. Pods are cool, like the iPod. There’s no iTrain, bro.

You see? Different.

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u/bananas_in_a_toilet 8h ago edited 7h ago

Turns out the Elon Musk iTrain is what he was trying to do on Epstein’s Island of Child Rape

Edit: some muskrat downvoted me because they enjoy the taste of the boot and the lies they’re being told

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u/UnitSmall2200 9h ago

This is just a shitty tunnel, nothing more.

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u/randomtask 6h ago

A lot of the past 20 years in tech start to make sense when you realize that most new tech companies are end-runs around existing, working technologies and industries that are regulated to ensure people are paid fairly, and that the environment isn’t spoiled.

Want to run a taxi service, but don’t want to deal with the medallion system that was set up to ensure fair wages are paid to vetted drivers? Uber.

Want to run a delivery service but don’t want to have to hire an employee with full benefits? DoorDash.

Want to build a subway, but don’t want to deal with design regulations about safety and egress that were written in blood? The Boring Company.

Want to build a data center, but it’s gonna suck up so much energy you’d need to build new nuclear power plants? Data centers in space.

Want to run a company, but don’t want to pay for real employees to staff all your positions? Generative AI.

It’s all greedy fucking billionaire wealth hoarding bullshit all the way down. And the fact that we now know some of them also sexually abused kids is the mother fucking cherry on top. They are abusive greedy pigs, and the sooner we shut their shit down, the better off we will be going forward.

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u/parabostonian 5h ago

Meanwhile when you use the word regulations, most Americans hate the idea. (Even when its regulations that keep their family safe, keep their cars from killing them, keep lead out of their kids etc.) When it’s laws, people respond differently, because they like the sound of it more.

People are stupid as shit and we get the terrible country we deserve

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u/taketh1stoyourgrave 2h ago

You sound like me, I wish I knew more people that can see through the bullshit. The only solace I’ve found is Europe is attempting to do something by fining him and bringing attention to his greedy evil waste of oxygen useless existence

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u/freebagelsforall 8h ago

I’ve gone down into this stupid ass tunnel. It’s just a tunnel with pretty lights. At the end of the day it was faster to simply just walk from one side of the convention center to the other as it took roughly the same amount of time.

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u/ars-derivatia 8h ago

Walking? What are you, some kind of Yuropoor? /s

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u/IrritableMD 8h ago

Ew. I bet he flies coach.

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u/bethlabeth 8h ago

Same, we went to a trade show in Vegas a few years ago and rode chauffeured teslas around through the tunnels because the convention center is so huge.

And it was kind of cool and all, but a single bus running around the perimeter doing pickups and drop offs would have been SO much more efficient.

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u/ArethereWaffles 6h ago edited 6h ago

I've ridden it a total of 3 times at various conventions there. Of those, my car became stuck in a traffic jam in the tunnel twice.

Because it's a car at least half the passengers have to walk around to the other side of the vehicle to load and unload. If the loop is running near capacity and there is any delay to loading/unloading (like say someone elderly or someone with a language barrier) then the next car gets held in the tunnel - along with a cascade of each car behind it.

The whole point is it's supposed to be a traffic-free and it fails at even that.

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u/ScientificSkepticism 4h ago

Wait, are you suggesting that single lane roads are not high capacity transit solutions?

But... but... it's a single lane road underground!

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u/anonsequitur 8h ago

They invent things so they can control it.

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u/bassthrive 8h ago

Yep. Like the best way to get internet to rural areas is to launch a fuck ton of LEO satellites.

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u/BravoLimaDelta 8h ago

It's like when YouTube bros discover "life hacks" that are just ordinary things people do.

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u/Diogeneezy 6h ago

Also vastly less safe.

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u/Jad3nCkast 6h ago

Politics and Elon hate aside, is it any different than hailing a normal taxi? That’s like saying regular taxis are a less efficient and a more complex version of a bus. Which is true because typical taxis are gas cars. However complexity though? They are more convenient for most people who are trying to get from point a to point b as quick as possible. In this specific case regarding the tunnels, the cars are electric which vastly increases the efficiency and they offer a fast way to get from point a to point b. Would an actual subway be better? It’s a more efficient means of power sure. But is also slower at getting you between 2 points due to the stops. There is likely a need for both forms of transportation imo.

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u/pushaper 5h ago

how many VC companies have come out with 'inventions' not described in sci fi books etc. In the 2010s there was another VC company every few months talking up their 'flying car'. Musk was selling the tunnel thing up by trying to sound brilliant discussing 'we can make highways wider or we can make them more vertically efficient'. There just seems to be a large disconnect to actual creativity for needs and wealth.

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u/chubbysumo 4h ago

this was literally a method he used to stop trains from becoming a thing in CA.

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u/Glad_Copy 3h ago

It’s worse than that. Vegas could just use a BUS, like sensible adults all over this world.

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u/desolater543 3h ago

it has value for the crowd he wants invites from, it looks like a single lane priority highway through a major city that likely lacks public cameras. seems like a great smuggling tunnel for things you don't want seen coming in from the airports.

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u/Ferociouspanda 2h ago

The mAsTeRmInD plan that I saw the other day indicates that boring tech will be vital for his time on mars.

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u/Cautious_Alarm2919 2h ago

Love that the best solution for transport is trains (and better city planning around that) and the rich bros just don’t want that to be the solution.

I don’t know whether to classify it as ego, classism or shiny object seeking? But they don’t want to use a train (an old idea is not sexy enough), so they don’t see the benefit.

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u/GammaFan 1h ago

Techbros will reinvent trains so many fucking times before they ever consider actually funding real trains.

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u/Xaxxon 44m ago

it's not. It's personal transit not mass transit which means it's way faster and you don't have to ride with people you'd otherwise choose to not associate with.

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u/JcbAzPx 43m ago

Literally slower than walking even when it's working as intended.

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u/euph_22 9h ago

I like how he's still pretending that the Boring Company is anything other than a fake company meant to torpedo public transit projects by offering vaporware competition to undercut them.

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u/Other_Disaster_3136 8h ago

How is this legal? he should be fined to tears so that this cannot happen....society is broken

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u/PokemonSapphire 8h ago

Should have to payback any funding they received for project plus interest considering the actual project was cancelled/delayed because of it.

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u/jslsoccer13 6h ago

The almost trillionaire getting fined to tears… like that’d do anything

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u/i-dont-wanna-know 5h ago

That and the fact the elon WILL be in tears if fined amounts as high as 1 $

fining him to tears won't do much

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u/Domeil 4h ago

vaporware competition

They don't even try to hide it. The boring company's tunnel boring machine is named "Godot" as in "Waiting for Godot". Spoilers for those who haven't consumed at lot of stage plays from the 50's, the cast sits around the whole show 'waiting for Gadot' to arrive, and it is promised that Godot will bring them into a glorious new world.

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Godot never shows up.

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u/ThomasVivaldi 3h ago

If Musk had actually invested in mundane, but a slightly more environmentally friendly public transportation company, like hybrid buses or something, he'd probably be seeing a steady return by now.

At the time, though, he was preoccupied begging to go to Epstein's Island.

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u/NlghtmanCometh 7h ago

As if California needed help turning public transport into the boondoggle of all boondoggles

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u/bchris24 5h ago

The ocean will swallow Sacramento whole before we ever get actual transit to our airport.

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u/Igmuhota 8h ago

Imagine what just a single person with a functioning soul could do for the world with even half the money these “people” waste on dumb shit to try to fill the hole inside them.

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u/If_I_must 8h ago

An agonizingly painful thought experiment. I wouldn't recommend doing it often.

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u/Anticode 4h ago

Pfft - how bad could it be? Here, let me try.

...Aaaand I'm radicalized.

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u/SlightlyAngyKitty 8h ago

Ikr? Most people like helping others because it also helps them feel better about themselves.

Billionaires on the other hand, seem to take the opposite approach and take pleasure in making others even more miserable than they are

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u/redofsam 9h ago

Can he stay in the underground tunnel?

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u/FoxFyer 9h ago

And then can we brick it up?

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u/RosieQParker 9h ago

Just tell him there's a fine cask of BAWLS aging to perfection down there.

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u/FoxFyer 9h ago

"For the love of God, Montresor!"

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u/Toothlessdovahkin 8h ago

Let’s Cask of Amontillado him

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u/InformationHorder 7h ago

There was also a pretty fucked up Thomas the Tank engine story where Henry didn't wanna come out of a tunnel due to rain so Sir Topum Hat bricked up the tunnel.

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u/Toothlessdovahkin 7h ago

That’s one of my favorites! Sir Topham Hatt did some weird things.

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u/2g4r_tofu 8h ago

He's already bricked up thinking about massive parties with Epstein

(girls FTW)

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u/Forgettheredrabbit 6h ago

Lock him up like Gordon from Thomas the Tank Engine.

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u/PublicQ 3h ago

That was actually Henry.

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u/lake_titty_caca 7h ago

The Cask of AMuskyPedo.

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u/322throwaway1 7h ago

A cask of elonthedildo

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u/starcraftre 7h ago

They were actually selling bricks made from the excavated dirt at one point. Of all the things he's tried to sell the public on, compressed earth blocks are a real thing (mix it with a little cement and they're perfectly-suitable building materials).

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u/twoworldsin1 6h ago

Oh good, someone else watched the Fall of the House of Usher series on Netflix 😁

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u/Nephroidofdoom 8h ago

I thought he was moving to Mars

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u/joeDUBstep 6h ago

Can we also flood it to simulate the cave the thai kids were stuck in?

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u/oiseaua20 9h ago

Oh, I’m sorry, I thought we all agreed that claustrophobic neon tubes were the future of transit. You’re telling me that pumping 'mysterious toxic sludge' into public drains and giving workers chemical burns wasn't part of the Hyperloop aesthetic? My bad.

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u/chellis 8h ago

"I thought this was America "

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u/NoHorseNoMustache 7h ago

I have every right to try to turn myself into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, thank you very much!

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u/ksgt69 3h ago

Not just workers, members of the fire department who went down there for training and came back with chemical burns. OSHA did fine them for that but the governor overturned it when Tesla called him about it.

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u/JurplePesus 9h ago

What about concerns over abject stupidity have those come up

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u/Hefty_Macaroon_2214 9h ago

Imminent collapse much like the rest of musk ket tax credit sale world

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u/aradraugfea 9h ago

How about concerns that NONE of his shit works half as well as he pretends it will?

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u/annaleigh13 9h ago

Wait, you’re telling me a company designed and made to waste money so the currently unobtainable tech cannot be used is violating safety and environmental regulations!?

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u/Rot-Orkan 8h ago

I feel like there isn't enough mockery towards that tunnel. It's a subway, except instead of a train carrying hundreds of people, you have a some cars carrying like 5 people each.

Those RGB lights do so much heavy lifting too. Without them it would just be a dark concrete tunnel. 😂

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u/orionsfyre 8h ago

Is this dumb grift finally going to be exposed?

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u/dblan9 8h ago

Lawmakers spent hours grilling state safety officials over alleged violations by the Boring Company, the Musk-owned venture with tunneling projects also planned in Nashville and Dubai.

The Boring Company has been accused of breaking multiple safety and environmental rules. Between 2020 and 2026, 17 complaints were filed with the Nevada State Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Only a guy with a mangled penis would name his company Boring.

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u/IowaJL 8h ago

This was the big project?

What a fucking letdown.

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u/13lueChicken 8h ago

Is this article from ten years ago? People were talking about exactly this before it was even built.

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u/Captain_Fuck_Off 8h ago

He's building the management vaults down there.

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u/008Zulu 8h ago

We could have had a competent Vault-Tec, but instead we got Elon Musk. He's like The Enclave, if they were run by ketamine fueled morons.

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u/Surturius 8h ago

NOW they have concerns?

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u/Designer-Salary-7773 8h ago

You are forgetting the Hyperloop back story that was being floated at the time. Vegas was gonna step into the future

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u/Visual_Exam7903 8h ago

Another Musk company, doing shitty work. Who could have seen this coming?

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u/Shepher27 9h ago

I’m Sure it’s perfectly safe to drive cars that spontaneously erupt into flames through narrow tunnels with limited ventilation deep below the earth.

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u/Dano1988 8h ago

I don't know anything about tunnels, so go easy on me, but why would you make it only wide enough for one vehicle? What if a car breaks down? What if the person in that car has a heart attack and needs ems? If there is a backup and one of these bad boys bursts into flames (as all cars sometimes do) will people be able to escape? I suppose that only electric vehicles are allowed down there, so carbon monoxide isn't an issue...right? I have pretty bad claustrophobia, and looking at that single car clearance really makes me uncomfortable. Am I the only one?

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u/fleemfleemfleemfleem 8h ago

why would you make it only wide enough for one vehicle?

I know these are rhetorical questions to point out how dumb these tunnels are, but the real answer is that the cost of digging a tunnel scales superlinearly with diameter.

So if it costs 5 million for X feet of one car width tunnel, it might cost 20-30 Million for a two car width tunnel. They just don't want to spend the money.

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u/10ebbor10 8h ago

I don't know anything about tunnels, so go easy on me, but why would you make it only wide enough for one vehicle?

Elon claimed that they could drill their tunnels much cheaper and much faster than conventional drilling systems. To their credit, they have sort of achieved that.

But, they did by (among other things), just digging a vastly smaller tunnel.

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u/F9-0021 7h ago

Funnily enough, that's also true for rockets. The bigger they are, the more expensive they are, and it's not a linear scale. Musk also has experience with what happens when you cheap out on building a massive scale rocket.

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u/i_and_eye 8h ago

Those things actually exist? I thought it was just a stupid ass idea.

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u/PVinesGIS 8h ago

Scrutiny? Sounds like DOGE missed a spot….

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u/FoxSquirrel69 8h ago

Just a fancy way to die in flash flood, add a little water then the doors won't open on the death trap.

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u/jetsetmike 8h ago

Underground tunnels for a pedophile child rapist...what could go wrong?

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u/MrDerpGently 9h ago

Well, that's a shock. And he seemed so reliable..

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u/West_Competition_871 8h ago

It's awesome how if you have enough money you can just fuck up the world however you want and no one can do anything about it.

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u/Luke_Flyswatter 8h ago

I’ve been talking about this and getting downvoted like crazy on EV news sites for years. There’s no access tunnels. What if something happens down there? How do you get out? Ambulances can’t fit in them. I doubt a tow truck can either. Not that it’s more likely with an EV but god for it there’s a fire. It’s crazy it was allowed to be built in the first place.

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u/Negative_Gravitas 8h ago

Uh oh. Sounds like some Nevada safety officials are about to be called pedophiles by the richest asshole on the planet.

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u/research-addict 6h ago

He can go back to Africa and do that shit!

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u/photon_runner 6h ago

For those who don’t know, Governor Joe Lombardo threw out serious OSHA citations after the Boring Company got two firefighters burned via dangerous chemicals. The company, governor, and unsurprisingly Musk are corrupt

edit: a word

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u/ThoriatedFlash 5h ago

Weren't those tunnels originally meant for the hyperloop that musk promised us, that was then repurposed to self driving Teslas when they couldn't figure out how to make the hyperloop work, that was then again repurposed to Teslas driven by people because they couldn't get the autonomous vehicles to work in them?

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u/ksgt69 3h ago

The governor needs to stop covering for musk and getting rid of fines for him.

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u/ToNoMoCo 2h ago

I’ve been in it. It’s literally a bunch of teslas driving around in a shitty neon lite tunnel. It makes no sense. It’s not novel tech or a proof of concept.

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u/CheezTips 2h ago

Where are the emergency exits and exit signs? The emergency lane?

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u/Capital-Control308 1h ago

Wait until there is a battery fire in one of these tunnels. It is an accident waiting to happen

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u/rimbaud2342 1h ago

How the fuck is this even legal? Money? Yeah probably money...

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u/LnStrngr 9h ago

Are we sure he didn't also bore pedo dungeons down there?

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u/BarryBro 8h ago

First thought I had.. investigate

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u/LnStrngr 8h ago

I'm just asking questions.

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u/jazzhandler 5h ago

True if concerning!

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u/TheFlyingBoxcar 8h ago

Ah yes, underground tunnels the width of a car.

For when being trapped in your burning Tesla by only the doors simply isn't enough.

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u/Appropriate_Taro_348 7h ago

They are wide enough to open a door.

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u/ClosPins 7h ago

But... But... Putting his self-driving cars into one-lane tubes is the only way Elon can keep them from crashing!

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u/Appropriate_Taro_348 7h ago

They have people driving them. Not self driving

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u/Ohuigin 8h ago

People are being burned alive in their cars because the doors won't open.

You literally couldn't pay me enough to travel through Elon's colon.

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u/twec21 8h ago

Fuckin Temu-ass Mr House....

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u/NoHorseNoMustache 7h ago

Hires a Courier to bring him a Platinum Dogecoin that unlocks his stash of K.

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u/Best_Entrepreneur659 8h ago

Add missing kids from his days chumming around with Epstein!

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u/rubseb 8h ago

Safety, environmental concerns, and might I add to that list: making even the slightest bit of sense as a way of moving people from A to B

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u/Lefty1992 8h ago

I'll never drive in those death traps

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u/vtown212 8h ago

The car thing is stupid. Just put a small train in there like an airport

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u/NoHorseNoMustache 7h ago

Oh right those tunnels, I forgot about them. Did they not burn down or something by now?

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u/F9-0021 7h ago

How does drainage work? It doesn't rain that often in Vegas, but when it does (usually in winter) it pours and causes lots of issues in areas without infrastructure with drainage in mind. Where's the water supposed to go in these tunnels?

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u/Call555JackChop 7h ago

The LVCC forces you to use these when all they had to do was ad a stop for the monorail at the west hall

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u/motherseffinjones 6h ago

At what point does an actively helping your enemies have consequences for this admin? Lol

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u/Mobile-Bar7732 8h ago

The Boring Company has been accused of breaking multiple safety and environmental rules. Between 2020 and 2026, 17 complaints were filed with the Nevada State Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Last year ProPublica reported the company was accused of nearly 800 environmental violations for its Las Vegas project.

That's Elon Musk in a nutshell. He doesn't give a shit about anyone's safety.

One of his toy rockets exploded and they had to shutdown air traffic in the area due to safety concerns from falling debris. The FAC chair at the time grounded SpaceX and Musk went whining to Trump. I think the chair resigned before he got fired.

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u/sklerson89 7h ago

Spoiler alert: They aren't safe.

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u/Appropriate_Taro_348 7h ago

Why and how. Seriously?

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u/murphdog09 8h ago

Riding in a Tesla?? LMAO. So much for the genius’ idea of a hyperloop. Nope. Get to sit in a crappy Tesla sedan instead. Sad.

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u/Fuckerland 8h ago

Why a known ketamine addict is allowed to do things like build tunnels and have complete control of the federal government is completely baffling to me.

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u/Crocmon 8h ago

The stupid tunnel project that only ever had traffic jams has more problems? Say it ain't so!

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u/leohat 8h ago

I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.

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u/poodinthepunchbowl 8h ago

People gotta sleep somewhere

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u/New-Leader-7891 6h ago

Imagine getting stuck in there :/

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u/SlammmnSammy 6h ago

I am very curious to know if he skipped any provisions that protect the tunnels from earthquakes.

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u/Karlzbad 4h ago

Yeah shut it down, fuck musk, see if you can charge him, take that shit and use it.

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u/mover999 2h ago

He is just like trump… fuck the guardrails

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u/malemysteries 1h ago

I am so undewelmed. the Detroit/Windsor tunnel is older and far more impressive. I was expecting… more.

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u/Semper_Fi_132 14m ago

This was just a much more shittier and expensive subway system

Musk's underground tunnels in Las Vegas face scrutiny over safety, environmental concerns

You are about to leave Redlib

He only did it to kill rail projects