instantregret 45 points 19 days ago

That was a fun read 😀

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darkdemize 18 points 19 days ago

Right? I wasn't expecting that level of sass, but I'm here for it.

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SuperEars 16 points 18 days ago

[Three stations] however, were open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., a completely reasonable schedule given most Vegas tourists are tucked back in their beds by 8:30 p.m.

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A_norny_mousse 3 points 18 days ago

Well, that thing is a joke.

I read a similar article some time ago, but mostly it was the pictures/video - apparently it hasn't changed one bit since years ago - it looks like a temporary redecoration of some industrial building. For a party.

Why Las Vegas agreed to this instead of just scrapping the whole project. - ah well, I can imagine why, but it's still unbelievable.

I guess this is just one in a long exhibition of expensive & shiny but utterly useless oddities in Vegas?

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fireweed 3 points 18 days ago

Hey, at least Las Vegas was willing to throw itself on the pyre before a "real" city got conned into building their own loop system. (Yes I know other cities are looking into building loops themselves, but they're all tourist traps like Orlando and New Orleans, not actual metropolises.)

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Cybersec 18 points 19 days ago

Yeah great article. What a stupid investment that concept is.

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Sgt_choke_n_stroke 12 points 18 days ago

All the money in the world and elon came up with the dumber idea to replace a train. What a waste of fucking space.

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modus 10 points 19 days ago

Are these cars in the loop owned by their drivers? Are people actually buying Teslas just to drive them in subterranean circles?

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vala 1 point 18 days ago

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criticon 10 points 19 days ago

Citynerd made a video about it last year, it's basically the same experience as the one in the article

https://youtu.be/VPjODKUxV5g

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SaveTheTuaHawk 7 points 19 days ago

Carnival ride for morons. They should use spinning teacups.

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BradleyUffner 9 points 19 days ago

That sounds like a death trap. How is this thing insured?

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limer 8 points 19 days ago

how is it insured?

Probably self insured in the sketchiest way

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IphtashuFitz 5 points 19 days ago

Tesla now offers insurance. Wouldn’t surprise me if this is all self-insured: https://www.tesla.com/insurance

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SaveTheTuaHawk 4 points 18 days ago

They have to, because Teslas are the most expensive car to insure because they have more accidents than any other brand and they are unrepairable from minor crashes.

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paper_moon 2 points 19 days ago

"It's interesting right? SpaceX stock will continue to make you money while you sleep, so I just ponied up about 100 shares, bullied and threatened some judges, openly paid off some people that if they agreed this should happen, I'd give them money, and here we are: Self insured with a house of debt cards built around 100 shares of SpaceX stock, that I didn't even have to give, I took my Tesla funding, ran that through the SpaceX money maker, and out popped 100 clean, laundered stock units, ready to "lobby" anyone I needed. Amazingly.. It really is amazing when you think about it."

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A_norny_mousse 2 points 18 days ago

Is that an actual Musk quote? Sounds like it's the one single thing he has learned in all his life, and the only topic about which he can string a few coherent sentences together.

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paper_moon 3 points 18 days ago

Lol no, I was trying to emulate the pseudo "intellectual" way in which these idiots try to speak, hyping their own stupid ideas and corruption as very interesting and intelligent.

I was also referencing Musk's very real way he was conning people into getting Teslas saying that when The Full Self Driving comes, they can rent out their Teslas as Uber's during the night, making money while you sleep. So it's not just a car, its an "investment"

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SaveTheTuaHawk 4 points 19 days ago

with slot machines

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one_old_coder 9 points 18 days ago

I thought it was some kind of magical train, not a tunnel for cars.

showing my phone to the driver.

And you need a driver? I thought those were magical cars driving themselves. God...

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Ilixtze 6 points 18 days ago

You know what america should do? Give this guy all of your pension funds.

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24_at_the_withers 1 point 18 days ago

I agree, the "loop" is asinine and a complete waste of resources. But I cannot support an author that deliberately misrepresents facts, particularly when there is no need to do so.

The Las Vegas metro area population is ~2.4 million people. So the author misrepresents population this "serves" by roughly a factor of four. And the 110,000 visitors also is a significant underestimate - the metro area has over 150k hotel rooms, they tend to have at least 90% occupied throughout the year - and with friends and family often splitting rooms, it's not uncommon to have upward of a million 'guests' in town at a time (New Year's, Super Bowl, BTS visiting, Etc.)

Author lost all credibility with me with this pointless obfuscation of the truth that was effectively irrelevant from the problem with the loop anyway.

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