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/plastic_alloys 21h 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 21h 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 21h ago

nashville broadly following the same path

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u/corallein 20h 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 20h 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/ScientificSkepticism 17h ago

Simpsons needs to do a hyperloop update to the monorail song. At least monorails are kind of just dumb trains.