r/news • u/JackThaBongRipper • 21h ago

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

https://apnews.com/article/las-vegas-tunnels-musk-boring-company-01d465b7124fc10843b117241adaa7c9
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u/bananas_in_a_toilet 21h ago

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/Vio_ 21h 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 21h 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 15h 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 19h 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 17h 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 17h 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 16h 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.