depressingly plausible take.

would this even work in dc? the water table is so high, one of the reasons they didn’t build a more extensive bunker complex in the 50s it’s impractical to build anything and then keep it from flooding.

that’s nifty. now we have to figure out how to get our legislature to pass said proposed solution, which is the actual hard part.

I’ve never heard that. Like, anywhere. Lol

the person I replied to.

We should be investing billions in creating livable spaces that don’t need cars so much. Then people will be happier and there will be less pollution.

when someone figures out how to make the better options more profitable than the bad options we’ll finally see progress.

until then we’re fucked

musk:

2016 “We should be able to do 90 percent of miles driven [autonomously] within three years.”

2015 “A Tesla car next year will probably be 90-percent capable of autopilot. Like, so 90 percent of your miles can be on auto. For sure highway travel.”

2018 “From a technology standpoint, Tesla will have a car that can do full autonomy in about three years, maybe a bit sooner.”

2018 “We’re going to end up with complete autonomy, and I think we will have complete autonomy in approximately two years.”

2019 “I consider autonomous driving to be a basically solved problem. … We’re less than two years away from complete autonomy. Regulators however will take at least another year; they’ll want to see billions of miles of data.”

there are about 20 more entries like this.

you apparently haven’t paid attention to the grifter in chief https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autonomous_Tesla_vehicles_by_Elon_Musk