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Musk: "complex planning requirements [are] at odds with the urgency needed to fight climate change"—IOW "get out of my way already, I'm important". If we want
by DemocracyFTW 5y ago
Musk: "complex planning requirements [are] at odds with the urgency needed to fight climate change"—IOW "get out of my way already, I'm important".
If we want to fight climate change and reduce emissions, we'd better not switch from fossil fuel SUVs to luxury EVs, but rather turn to alternatives like living more locally, and using trains a lot more. But that step is not what is being promoted, surprise, and it's also not a step that many people are ready to do. They fiercely identify with their vehicles and can become quite aggressive whenever one threatens to make owning a car more expensive. At least, should climate change 'happen one day' (/s), they'll have a car to drive somewhere else (again, /s).
- bryanlarsen 5y agoAnother Elon Musk company is building what is basically a subway in Las Vegas.
- rsynnott 5y agoWell, a subway but much, much worse, realistically. It's a 'subway' that has a lower capacity than a decent BRT line.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoVegas doesn't have the population to support a subway, so the tunnel is properly sized. If Vegas did have a subway, it wouldn't have enough population to run every few minutes, so you'd have to wait a long time for the train. With the small cars you don't have to wait, and you get the equivalent of an express train every time. But the big advantage is the cost -- subways cost hundreds of millions per mile.
- DemocracyFTW 5y agoYou mean the one Adam Something was so enthusiastic about? /s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvK2i9Jxy5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvK2i9Jxy5c https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamSomething/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamSomething/videos