The Boring Company’s tiny Las Vegas Loop is all that’s come of Musk’s promises to build superfast mass-transit “hyperloops.” Workers say its tunnels are packed with chemical sludge.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    23·
    8 months ago

    I don’t know why anyone would get in a tiny tunnel to be driven around in a Tesla. It doesn’t even sound worth it for the novelty. And it can’t even self-drive through a closed loop apparently.

    • Beefy-Tootz@lemmy.world
      11·
      8 months ago

      That’s ignoring the fact that Tesla batteries, when they malfunction, are capable of making a fire most fire departments can’t handle and now it’s blocking your exit through a tube. This is a death trap waiting to happen

      • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social
        10·
        8 months ago

        They are really sketchy about it too. Ther was thei incident in germany where a tesla burned out. When it finally extinguished it landed on a junkyard, and they send a tesla technician to disconnect the battery to make it “safe”. After that, no one was alloed to see the wrecked car anymore because telsa spend a pretty penny to the junkyard to just hide it somewhere.

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        3·
        8 months ago

        To be fair, this isn’t just Tesla batteries, any lithium ion or lithium polymer battery will be har to put out.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        2·
        8 months ago

        Great. An even bigger problem than it just sounding generally unpleasant. Thanks, Elon. Can’t wait for the “hilarious” tweet when 12 people die in the tunnel fire.