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[–] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 31 points 6 days ago

Taking the "mass" and "transit" out of mass transit

[–] unaware@hexbear.net 27 points 6 days ago

It kind of looks like an infinitely stretched pigpoop

[–] ExotiqueMatter@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

If you clean the inside of an intestine, that's about how it would look like inside.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

Honestly pretty true it's surprisingly white and ... Frothy looking powercry-1

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago (4 children)

If you became overlord of Vegas and were tasked with making use of these tunnels, what would you do with them?

Tiny trains? Bike lanes? Something else?

[–] miz@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

competitive roller blade racing track

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm thinking walking conveyor belt. Could be fun.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 1 points 6 days ago

Something like this would be great in very cold regions

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 6 points 6 days ago

Tunnel of Love

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

small gauge railway paternoster

Kind of cool of them to lay on one car per tourist visiting Vegas this season!

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Here is the tweet for people hoping to watch the video: https://xcancel.com/ranimolla/status/1965559696708006167#m

And the video doesn't even make it clear how bad the "traffic" was. Why did I expect it to show the car ahead stopped dead in the tunnel or something?

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What if they took all the cars and linked them together, and set them on a guided rail?

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I remember the chapter of capital "The importance of rigorous car linking and public transportation as a step towards establishing the dictorship of the proletariat"

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can then replace the rubber tires with steel wheels. Also, when you're building infrastructure you can also put in a cable, so that instead of having to lug around batteries, your cars can take power from the grid. And when you're linking vehicles then you can make it so that the front vehicle has all the engine power and the other cars are just towed behind it like a trailer. I know, revolutionary and has never been done before anywhere on earth.

[–] Runcible@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

you can also put them much closer together safely.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, and since you don't have motors in back cars anymore you can just make some kind of door to walk between them. But also putting that many people close together might cause issues so you need someone to supervise them, call them a conductor (or a guard if you're British)

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 3 points 6 days ago

Pretty sure we call them conductors over here too

[–] BadTakesHaver@hexbear.net 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder how the ppl who canceled California's high speed rail feel rn

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 23 points 6 days ago

The ones who actually made the decision? 0 cares, the car lobby won, and the people that got their cheques got their cheques.

The people who actually believed the SuperDuperLoop scam? Probably mildly embarrassed at best, not enough to change their worldview.

[–] deepfriedwater@lemmygrad.ml 57 points 1 week ago

Politicians got their money, billionaires got to screw over another public infrastructure project, and it’s not like any of them would be caught dead in a train. It’s probably a win in their books

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 39 points 1 week ago

idk but as a california resident illegal-to-say

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Homer scares that front right kid so bad he changes ethnicity? What is going on here?

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

First couple of seasons had some weird animation problems

[–] mudpuppy@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

wait sothere r other skin colors in yhe simpsons. are the yellow people white or are they just actually yellow

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

East Asians are lighter yellow like the episode where they go to Japan or the token Japanese Springfielder

White people are the usual Simpsons yellow

and then brown folk are still brown.

[–] mudpuppy@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago
[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 6 days ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Something about this is so terrifying

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 14 points 6 days ago

The fact that the tunnel is not quite straight for no discernible reason is really offputting.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 13 points 6 days ago

Awaiting the headline of 'fire occurs in Tesla tunnel, crews unable to help due to design' any day now

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's claustrophobia-inducing, no space around the car means an accident or two and you're fucked

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's a tunnel designed by my-hero.

Well, his company, not him personally of course, but not a good track record.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 4 points 6 days ago

Track record

kelly

[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 36 points 1 week ago

couldn't even drill in a straight line smdh what kind of high tech tunnel is this

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago

Look at my public transit dawg

[–] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Frivolous_Beatnik@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like actual nightmare imagery - Amigara Fault type shit

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 7 points 6 days ago

THIS IS MY BAZINGA TUNNEL! IT WAS MADE FOR ME!

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

this looks like something from a david lynch movie

[–] spectre@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago

my first thought when i heard about these tunnels being built

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