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oblio • today at 3:08 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> Boring Company is also on the path to being successful, it's just not advertised much.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!? It's a marketing gimmick with lower transport capacity than a horse and buggy (and similar travel speed!) that's distracting cities like Vegas and Nashville from actual public transit.

It's an abject failure.

> If you were to take what should be public transportation planning and turn it into a neoliberal nightmare, this is exactly what you would get".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegas_Loop

> Hyperloop - this could still come after boring company succeeds.

If my grandma had wheels, she'd be a bycicle.

Also, my guess is that you guys are all American. For the kind of money they're investing they could just start an automous train/tram company and the environment and humanity would be much better off.


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peab • today at 4:08 PM

Ah yes - a company is such a failure that it recently raised 3 billion dollars at a 23 billion dollar valuation?

If it's successful, their boring machine will tunnel 10x faster and 10x cheaper than competitors, and it will be the one making new tunnels for all sorts of trains.

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