Here’s how it will go:
- The Boring Company aquires Amtrak.
- Elon Musk says: “If we can’t come up with a better technology in X amount of years, we will just dismantle all the rail network and sell it a junk metal”.
- The melting down of rails, etc., begins way before the deadline.
- Elon Musk announces alternative in the form of self-driving cars, donates a few Teslas for charity.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Don’t let Musk or his companies anywhere near these projects. He and his team are experts at turning actual infrastructure into vaporware.
adarza@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
more of biden’s infrastructure bill money to steal… congressionally approved and allocated money. early site prep has already begun, even.
letting muskrat anywhere near this has great potential to really fuck-up the entire northeast corridor for a decade or two–or longer, for passengers and freight.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Expensive vaporware
endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Musk is the president, he gets any contract he wants.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Yeah, the Vegas loop, as I understand it to be built, would never be allowed by any sane or even rogue/mad civil engineer, and that’s basically just a gussied up go-kart tunnel. No way in fuck they need to be allowed anywhere near train infra.