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Re:Boring Company Will Expand Las Vegas Tunnels to 65-Mile N... by ianburrell on Thursday May 04, 2023 @05:55PM (#35822641)
The current Teslas in Convention Center tunnel have human drivers. The original plan was to have automated pods but that would have cost money. It might be possible to drive Tesla automated, but it is probably not easy to disconnect the drivers seat.
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Re:Boring Company Will Expand Las Vegas Tunnels to 65-Mile N... by jandrese on Thursday May 04, 2023 @08:36PM (#35823977)
Human drivers can't be cheap either, and they reduce the capacity of the vehicle by a whopping 25%. Or are the cars in self driving mode but still stuck with the driver alertness systems? That would be a terrible job, holding on the wheel of a self driving car in a tunnel all day long just to keep the self driving system from getting mad and stopping the car.
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