Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative…::The Boring Company’s tiny Las Vegas Loop is all that’s come of Musk’s promises to build superfast mass-transit “hyperloops.” Workers say its tunnels are packed with chemical sludge.

  • filister@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    How someone is calling this innovation is beyond me.

    And transporting people in individual cars is the least efficient use of a tunnel. Even his original idea sucked, where a car is placed over a platform.

    https://piped.video/watch?v=5WAez2n2lSU - that’s what I call innovation.

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      4 months ago

      Carbrains keep reinventing the wheel with individual cars, the hyperloop stans also like to hype their innovative idea of automating cars to link together on highways to “streamline traffic and achieve better speed”

      Don’t you dare call it a train, they will fucking melt down on you.