Frédéric JacobsNov 29, 2022
The Boring Company increasingly just looks like another attempt by the car salesman to disrupt projects of public transportation in the US, claiming that those sham tunnels are going to solve traffic problems. https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel-traffic-11669658396?mod=tech_lead_pos5
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Ghosts Cities Across America

The tunnel venture has repeatedly teased local officials with a pledge to ‘solve soul-destroying traffic,’ only to back out

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Show threadFrédéric Jacobs
"So the Hyperloop, for example, Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project and to get in the way of that actually succeeding."
https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788
Silicon Valley's Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure

The titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation.

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Nov 30, 2022 at 7:08pmWeb
Show threadGuillaume LaurentDec 1, 2022
@fj more generally, there won't be a miracle solution for transportation problems from Silicon Valley or anywhere else.