What if they took all the cars and linked them together, and set them on a guided rail?
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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I remember the chapter of capital "The importance of rigorous car linking and public transportation as a step towards establishing the dictorship of the proletariat"
You can then replace the rubber tires with steel wheels. Also, when you're building infrastructure you can also put in a cable, so that instead of having to lug around batteries, your cars can take power from the grid. And when you're linking vehicles then you can make it so that the front vehicle has all the engine power and the other cars are just towed behind it like a trailer. I know, revolutionary and has never been done before anywhere on earth.
you can also put them much closer together safely.
Yes, and since you don't have motors in back cars anymore you can just make some kind of door to walk between them. But also putting that many people close together might cause issues so you need someone to supervise them, call them a conductor (or a guard if you're British)
Pretty sure we call them conductors over here too
I wonder how the ppl who canceled California's high speed rail feel rn
Politicians got their money, billionaires got to screw over another public infrastructure project, and it’s not like any of them would be caught dead in a train. It’s probably a win in their books
idk but as a california resident 
The ones who actually made the decision? 0 cares, the car lobby won, and the people that got their cheques got their cheques.
The people who actually believed the SuperDuperLoop scam? Probably mildly embarrassed at best, not enough to change their worldview.
Taking the "mass" and "transit" out of mass transit
Something about this is so terrifying
it's claustrophobia-inducing, no space around the car means an accident or two and you're fucked
Legit car tunnels have a shoulder with frequently spaced exits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Route_99_tunnel#/media/File:SR_99_Tunnel_opening_celebration_-_vents_and_digital_sign.jpg
It's a tunnel designed by 
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Well, his company, not him personally of course, but not a good track record.
Track record
The fact that the tunnel is not quite straight for no discernible reason is really offputting.
Awaiting the headline of 'fire occurs in Tesla tunnel, crews unable to help due to design' any day now
It kind of looks like an infinitely stretched 
this looks like something from a david lynch movie
If you clean the inside of an intestine, that's about how it would look like inside.
Honestly pretty true it's surprisingly white and ... Frothy looking 
If you became overlord of Vegas and were tasked with making use of these tunnels, what would you do with them?
Tiny trains? Bike lanes? Something else?
competitive roller blade racing track
I'm thinking walking conveyor belt. Could be fun.
Something like this would be great in very cold regions
Tunnel of Love
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Kind of cool of them to lay on one car per tourist visiting Vegas this season!
Oh, hell nah.
my first thought when i heard about these tunnels being built
Here is the tweet for people hoping to watch the video: https://xcancel.com/ranimolla/status/1965559696708006167#m
And the video doesn't even make it clear how bad the "traffic" was. Why did I expect it to show the car ahead stopped dead in the tunnel or something?
Homer scares that front right kid so bad he changes ethnicity? What is going on here?
First couple of seasons had some weird animation problems
wait sothere r other skin colors in yhe simpsons. are the yellow people white or are they just actually yellow
East Asians are lighter yellow like the episode where they go to Japan or the token Japanese Springfielder
White people are the usual Simpsons yellow
and then brown folk are still brown.
OH NO
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
couldn't even drill in a straight line smdh what kind of high tech tunnel is this
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