Elon Musk’s Vegas Loop project racks up serious safety violations — Workers describe routine chemical burns, permanent scarring to limbs, and violations that call into question claims of innovative…::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.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It’s just a tunnel with human-driven Tesla cars in it. How do they even manage to fuck it up that bad?

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      9 months ago

      Tunnels need to be large so they can have safety features like emergency walkways and air conducts. Musk’s tunnel is just large enough to contain a car, because every inch of diameter costs an enormous amount of money.

      Before this project Musk boasted that his Boring company can do tunnels much cheaper than traditional companies, this tunnel showed how.