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Re:X is closing San Francisco HQ and relocating staffers to ... by occz on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @07:50AM (#41169930)
I wouldn't bring up the Las Vegas network if you're trying to advocate for the boring company, it's quite possibly the worst system of transportation that's ever been created. A farce in every aspect, benefiting no one.
Re:X is closing San Francisco HQ and relocating staffers to ... by loceng on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @01:54PM (#41173355)
Imagine if SpaceX stopped testing reusable rockets after the 2nd test-failure. Maybe you’re right and Elon should give up right now with Boring Company - I mean, Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, Boring Company, Twitter-X, and who knows what else I’m forgetting or they’re developing in secret - have all done soooo badly, clearly a serial failure of an entrepreneur; oh right, Starlink, where they’re on the path to $5 billion monthly of revenues which will fund the Mars colony.

The farce is the irrational, resentful-emotionally corrupt logic of people being pessimistic, if not hateful, and completely failing in understanding how innovation occurs - instead being grumpy and lost in bipolar, all-or-nothing thinking making ridiculous claims like "benefiting no one;" maybe learn to brainstorm better, developing your creativity, and probably you also need to learn to put yourself in other people's shoes.

Maybe work on not being miserable in your life so you can not view the world in shit-covered goggles.

Re:X is closing San Francisco HQ and relocating staffers to ... by jen20 on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @05:51PM (#41175768)
I used the underground Tesla thing to get between the halls of the convention center during NAB - it was pretty reasonable, but not really scalable...
Re:X is closing San Francisco HQ and relocating staffers to ... by occz on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @05:57PM (#41175830)
This is not the sort of thing you should measure on an individual user experience basis. Try running the numbers for the system, it would essentially get beaten by a medium-sized bus in capacity and times, at a fraction of the cost.

Not to mention the large delta between what was promised versus what was delivered. There's probably a good case for fraud, if it were not for the fact that the purchasers want to save face they could probably sue.

Re:X is closing San Francisco HQ and relocating staffers to ... by jen20 on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @06:11PM (#41175949)
... that is what I said. Good experience, not scalable.

However, transit advocates need to realize that the experience of individual users _does_ matter.