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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by jejeyyy77 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @08:31PM (#22071024)
Lol reading the comments in this sub show how clueless the general population is. Probably the same people that said Tesla was vaporware.

To answer your question: He’s not building subway tunnels. It’s tunnels for Tesla vehicles.

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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by nonanonymous on Thursday January 16, 2020 @08:35PM (#22071044)
That doesn't exactly improve the ROI.
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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by thedrbrian on Thursday January 16, 2020 @08:49PM (#22071121)
It makes it a lot worse. You can fit a load of people on a subway train versus a model s or x
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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by pjkundert on Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:47PM (#22071414)
You’ve got the wrong perspective.

From the perspective of the city, the ROI of a subway train is high.

From the perspective of an individual, the ROI of using my own car in a tunnel, exactly when I want to, without parking, waiting, embarking, smelling the vagrants, disembarking, walking or getting a cab, ... Priceless!

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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by bluGill on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:43PM (#22071917)
From the perspective of an individual, the ROI of using my own car ON a FREEWAY, exactly when I want to, without parking, waiting, embarking, smelling the vagrants, disembarking, walking or getting a cab, ... Priceless!

My corrections in CAPS.

I don't think I need to say more, it should be obvious way tunnels for cars are a bad idea.

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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by mc3 on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:57PM (#22071715)
But... the city is you! Without the trains that's more cars in your way when you drive your car.
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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by jellicle on Thursday January 16, 2020 @11:02PM (#22071735)
> exactly when I want to

What about everyone else and their cars?

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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by modo_mario on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:15AM (#22072344)
>Priceless!

Weird then that he didn't ask the individual to pay for it.

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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by pjkundert on Friday January 17, 2020 @08:29AM (#22074410)
Hey, everyone — I (fairly) accurately expressed the points of view of some participants in this equation. Why are you spanking me for that? Or... were you looking for an echo chamber here on HN?

Because if you keep downvoting every statement that you don’t agree with, that’s what you’ll soon have!

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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by mc3 on Thursday January 23, 2020 @07:03PM (#22133832)
I down voted because I believe it is an extraordinary claim without evidence.
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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by Can_Not on Saturday January 18, 2020 @08:44AM (#22084391)
"an echo chamber is when anyone disagrees with me"
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Re:The Boring Company’s Las Vegas tunnel is nearly 50% done by asdff on Friday January 17, 2020 @01:50AM (#22072450)
Spoken like someone who spends 4 hours on the 405 fwy a day, by choice.
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