Elon Musk Shows Off The Boring Company's LA Tunnel (theverge.com)

Elon Musk is keeping to his promise of opening the Boring Company's proof-of-concept tunnel to the public on December 10th. The two-mile-long Los Angeles tunnel takes 30 seconds to get through via a sped-up video. The Verge reports: Construction on the tunnel began over a year ago, and extends from SpaceX's Hawthorne, California headquarters, to an LA suburb. Since then, the Boring Company has been selected to build tunnels for Chicago and Washington DC, and has sketched out plans to build a larger network of tunnels under LA, with the aim of reducing congestion. The tunnels will theoretically use autonomous, electric skates to move anywhere from 8 to 16 people along the system's rails at speeds anywhere from 124 mph to 155mph.

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Johnny Canal redux

[spywhere]

SNL predicted this idea, and its flaws, decades ago:
https://youtu.be/F42qmFHNM-M

Re:200 to 250 km/h

[DNS-and-BIND]

It's almost as if they have style guides that tell them to use units that their audiences will understand! OMG that's so weird!

Do you have anything useful to contribute, or are you just going to keep leeching off the US Navy's free protection for your exports, completely lopsided trade agreements that you profit highly from and Americans lose from, and the US military's highly subsidized free service whereby we put our own young men in harm's way so you can sit back and take potshots at them? You are entitled to our unflinching protection, we are entitled to your unending scorn.

USA out of NATO.