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.

  • filister@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    How someone is calling this innovation is beyond me.

    And transporting people in individual cars is the least efficient use of a tunnel. Even his original idea sucked, where a car is placed over a platform.

    https://piped.video/watch?v=5WAez2n2lSU - that’s what I call innovation.

    • SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      that’s what I call innovation

      Well, yeah, but both maglev and vacuum are high maintenance. Doing both seems like asking for constant downtime due to failures.