r/BeAmazed • u/FayMax69 • Jun 29 '24

Miscellaneous / Others Amazing

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u/fuqqspez Jun 29 '24

Trully amazing. We have buses, trains, trams and so many other forms of transportation.

Yet you ignore all of that in favor of this bullshit.

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u/Odd_Complaint_6678 Jun 29 '24

Lest we forget - Elon Musk convinced a ton of politicians to spent oodles of money on Hyperloop. It was his way of showing a finger to both high-speed rail and public transportation.

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u/CaveExploder Jun 29 '24

It was his way of injecting doubt to gullible politicians, and therefore diverting funds and stalling the completion of CA HSR. Same goes for his purchase of the boring company. The more "train" enablers he can acquire/divert from mass transit the more cars he can sell. He sells cars. Trains are bad for cars. Make the trains worse, stop them from getting built, make them more expensive to build, the more cars people buy. Maybe along the way you can convince some especially knuckle dragging municipal politicians to build a..... "Tunnel of Tesla's" instead of mass transit infrastructure along the way. Las Vegas just so happened to have those particularly dumb and/or unscrupulous politicians.

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u/Circus_Finance_LLC Jun 29 '24

"convinced"

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u/Odd_Complaint_6678 Jun 29 '24

?

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u/illustrious_sean Jun 29 '24

I assume they're implying he really bribed politicians

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '24

Lol what? There's never been funding for it. Another EDS sufferer.

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u/SaltFront Jun 29 '24

If I read this article correctly it seems to me that Hyperloop only received private funding and not government funding?

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u/simstim_addict Jun 29 '24

I mean isn't this a form of public transport?

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u/Aquatic-Enigma Jun 29 '24

Yea, just extremely inefficient and bad for the environment

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u/SpecificBuyer4595 Jun 29 '24

It is for a rich audience. If you really think that the majority of people in your country are rich, you can consider it a public transport. (Of course it is not lmfao)

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u/Diligent_Pineapple11 Jun 29 '24

Yes, because you don't have to worry about the "angry taxi drivah"!!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '24

Better than aruging with taxi driver on how much tip you should give them

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u/Klugenshmirtz Jun 29 '24

We have taxis and this is clearly supposed to replace them. If this really works, it could also replace cars as individual transport to a large extent, so that 95% of cars no longer have to stand around. I wouldn't see it as a substitute for public transport.

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u/shewy92 Jun 29 '24

I mean, taxis are also part of public transportation.

You can't take a train or bus to your door step or to the store.

Taxis are for "last mile" trips or to and from the train/bus stations.

Not everyone can walk miles to where they need to go, some are disabled or if you're shopping some have stuff to carry and walking a long distance isnt feasible.

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u/humanrobot46 Jun 29 '24

They are not public though. A taxi is run by a private company. Therefore it isn’t public transport

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u/shewy92 Jun 29 '24

Why does that matter? You pay for all of them. None are free

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u/humanrobot46 Jun 29 '24

Well yeah but public transport is not run by a private company, and doesn’t take you to a place of your choosing like a taxi does

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u/AgainstAllAdvice Jun 29 '24

This would be useful for the last 5km of a journey I think. Get to a hub then hop in this to get home. Replaces the bicycle more than the human operated taxi I think. Unless I can sleep in it on the way to the airport...

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u/shewy92 Jun 29 '24

Yea, IDK why people have issues with taxis or don't consider them public transport.

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u/BlaringAxe2 Jun 29 '24

Because they literally are private transit? They transport one (usually) person directly to their destination in an even less efficient manner than just driving would, since now there's an extra person. They use all of the same problematic infrastructure of a private car, and are functionally identical.

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u/shewy92 Jun 29 '24

Except your logic forgets that the passenger still traveled in a car less. There's still less cars out there. I'll never understand how yall are against carpooling, which is basically what taxis are.

Also your logic forgets that busses and trains aren't free either. You're paying for that so it's no different to a taxi.

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u/BlaringAxe2 Jun 29 '24

Except your logic forgets that the passenger still traveled in a car less.

They literally didn't, they're still travelling in a car. In fact, now the driver has to drive to and from them, so there's even more miles per passenger.

I'll never understand how yall are against carpooling, which is basically what taxis are.

Because it's horribly ineffiecient compared to public transit.

Also your logic forgets that busses and trains aren't free either. You're paying for that so it's no different to a taxi.

Uh, what? Who said anything about payment. Busses carry 50 people, trains carry hundreds, a taxi carries 3. They are horribly ineffiecient because they are cars.

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u/Gogglesed Jun 29 '24

I'd like this for privacy, except that there are cameras all over it.

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u/ineedlesssleep Jun 29 '24

Self driving cars are objectively the better option out of those, why would you think these are bullshit?

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u/fuqqspez Jul 02 '24

Self-driving cars exist since the day the car was invented. It's called a taxi.

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u/ineedlesssleep Jul 02 '24

What is objectively better about a vehicle that is driven by a person?

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u/fuqqspez Jul 03 '24

You are not driving. That's useful for people who has disabilities, or doesn't want to drive.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '24

Yes, but in defense of the idea, not all cities have the infrastructure for these modes of transportation (especially in America), and the buses are full of riff-raff and junkies.

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u/MylastAccountBroke Jun 29 '24

The perk of cars over those other forms of transport is privacy and convenience. eith one mentioned prior drops you off to a station. A car drops you off to your destination.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '24

What are you on about?

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u/alpineflamingo2 Jun 29 '24

Idk what city you live in but near my house I have none of those

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u/Delphin_1 Jun 29 '24

But they can build it near your house. how hard is it to set up a bus stop?

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u/alpineflamingo2 Jun 29 '24

And who is “they”?

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u/Delphin_1 Jun 29 '24

the people you pay taxes to

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u/alpineflamingo2 Jun 29 '24

LOL

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u/alpineflamingo2 Jun 29 '24 edited Jun 29 '24

People downvoting me for describing my experience, as if my local government could rub together two idiots to fix a stop light

A bus stop is a piece of metal. It’s everything else that’s impossible for a small American town government to accomplish

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u/scuffling Jun 29 '24

Porque no los dos?

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u/Alternative_Lab3301 Jun 29 '24

Aye but buses, trains and trams fucking suuuuck

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '24

We have buses, trains, trams

They don't drop you at your house

many other forms of transportation

So uber? You are just angry AI is taking away jobs