At this point just pay China to build the damn thing, everything we have is already made in China anyway what’s the difference
What if we had something that was like a train, except far more dangerous, obscenely more fuel inefficient and expensive to run, subject to far more unpredictable conditions due to other drivers, and would travel on a road instead of a railway line which requires far more maintenance? And would just go far slower than HSP anyway?
My problem with public transport has always been that it’s just not terrifying enough to ride
Dear China: you may have a safe and sprawling high-speed transport network, but we will have Mickey’s Dick Smasher
I actually busted out laughing. So now and in just this case the dems will be pro-bus because not only is it not city public transportation - it’s an AI-powered death machine
I just thought of something that would put Elon Musk to shame
-Whatever consultant came up with this shit.
They’re gonna finally give us a bus that can jump 100 motorcycles
I want to jump every member of congress with a steam roller.
What could possibly go wrong lmao.
Forget Good Idea: Here’s Worse Idea
Not even just worse. It’s like the worst idea ever. a 140mph bus has enough kinetic energy to turn the average passenger vehicle into a literal pancake. Nobody is surviving that.
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Just put it on a dedicated, physically separated lane, connecting each bus to maximize throughput. You can use harder, metal tires to reduce friction loss.
now this is innovation right here
Not to mention the only way to get a bus up to that speed consistently is if it had its own dedicated lane with limited entrances with very gradual curves. And if you’ve bothered building out the infrastructure for all that, you might as well have just built out the infrastructure for HSR.
Methinks the idea here is they’ll add “just one more lane” with the pinky promise for it to be for the high-tech bullet buses. A shit-ton of money will be thrown at startups and consultants to “innovate” the bus lane design, in the end they’ll produce butkis, and it’ll end up just being an overpriced highway widening.
Consulting is the wildest grift I’ve ever seen.
How the fuck do people do it? Like how do you get started and get the confidence to consult. I’m a very smart boy and would be good at it but i’d be scared i’d think of a dumb idea like bullet buses and get fired
You need unwarranted, delusional confidence to do this kind of consulting. It’s the kind you can only get from a whole career’s worth of sucking up and then getting sucked up to in return.
For just $300k per year, I will design a mass transit system where we are worms driving apple cars at a millionty-billion miles per hour. It will still require car infrastructure but worse.
Unfortunately we have to turn down your proposal because our board wants to integrate in AI more to proposals and doesn’t feel you’re quite on the same page.
Rip up the roads and build trains. Kill your car companies. They are.more trouble than they are worth.
It takes almost nothing for me to consider fed posting these days
first as farce, and then as tragedy
You beat me to it!
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