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It’s in a conceptual prototyping stage, jeez. Criticism is fine but you gotta let the bud flower, come to fruition and then put regulations. That’s how literall
by systemvoltage 6y ago
It’s in a conceptual prototyping stage, jeez. Criticism is fine but you gotta let the bud flower, come to fruition and then put regulations. That’s how literally every single world changing technology is invented. If Elon’s ideas don’t work out, fine. It was a boondoggle on his own dime, what’s anyone’s business in slamming down on the efforts?
Risk taking is amazing. I’m not sure if I want to live in a risk averse world where ideas are nipped in the bud by CEOs of GE and Honeywell.
- user-the-name 6y ago"Tunnels" is not something that is at a "conceptual prototyping stage". We've built tunnels for hundreds of years. We know what the dangers are, we don't need a prototype to kill a bunch of people to find that out.
- the__prestige 6y agoYou could make a similar argument against electric cars.
- sangnoir 6y agoElectric cars? Perhaps. Self-driving cars? Not so much.
- sangnoir 6y agoI'm not sure what down-voters are disagreeing with: electric cars have been in existence for over 100 years, there are very few unknowns there. Self-driving cars are a very recent development, and not a single developer has achieved widespread Level 5 autonomy. I thought that'd be pretty uncontroversial, but this is HN, I guess.
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- Pyramus 6y agoAh yes, the world changing technology of putting a potential fire hazard in a narrow tunnel with no escape routes. What could possibly go wrong? [1] More information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RPMt_FS-s8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RPMt_FS-s8 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tunnel_disasters https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Tunnel_disasters