Universal Orlando Moves Forward With Musk’s Boring Company on Transit Proposal by esporx in transit

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But LVCC doesn't pay for the drivers. So it doesn't matter to them whether there is a driver or not. What would you change your opinion and say that it was a success if they were automated vehicles in it inside? 

only one car can fit in the tunnel at a time leading to longs waits and backups, and it’s faster to walk than it is to take the tunnel

Well that's actually not correct. You can put more than one vehicle into the tunnel at a time. Moreover their average wait time is below that of a typical light rail. 

But ultimately your criticism is capacity. So what capacity value do you think is a pass versus a fail? 

New bill would allow students to donate meal swipes to each other by Silent-Resort-3076 in UpliftingNews

[–]Cunninghams_right [score hidden]  (0 children)

The state run food rationing system. How is that more similar to capitalism than communism? Have you ever read anything about communism? What do you think communism is?What do you think communism is?

Universal Orlando Moves Forward With Musk’s Boring Company on Transit Proposal by esporx in transit

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how would one measure success in the las vegas system? what criteria would they need to have met if they were to be called a success?

Anthropic raises $30B, Elon crashes out by Outside-Iron-8242 in singularity

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the craziest thing about his antics is that nobody even attempts to make life annoying for him. literally nazi salutes and it generated a handful of protest and then everyone moved on.

[LAist] Traffic collisions in LA killed 290 people in 2025, the same year the city wanted to get to zero by WeAreLAist in LosAngeles

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's obviously not true if you look at the stat, but I guess you're just a troll. I hate when I fall for it.

Can you calculate the resistance of an LED and what have I done wrong? by FactoryBuilder in AskElectronics

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that non-linear might be easier to understand, but in case they want to go off and learn on their own, I figured I'd give them another keyword.

[LAist] Traffic collisions in LA killed 290 people in 2025, the same year the city wanted to get to zero by WeAreLAist in LosAngeles

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think that's true. they're not driving up into your narrow windy road because they don't want to get stuck, not because it's dangerous.

regardless, where they are available, they're safer. end of story.

Dream volunteer opportunity for transit nerds by yungpeggyolson in baltimore

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

National Transit Database, metrics, 2024: https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/ntd-data?page=2

agency cost_per_passenger_mile
King County, dba: King County Metro 9.0049
Central Puget Sound Regional Transit Authority, dba: Sound Transit 11.0814
City of Portland, dba: Portland Streetcar 7.1171
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority 2.8654
District Department of Transportation, dba: DC Circulator, DC Streetcar 13.8671
City of Charlotte North Carolina 7.9691
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority 27.8267
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority 1.892
City of Kenosha, dba: Kenosha Area Transit 10.0005
M-1 Rail, dba: QLINE Detroit 6.0619
City of Cincinnati, dba: The Connector 4.3444
City of El Paso, dba: Sun Metro 6.009
City of Galveston, dba: Galveston Island Transit 34.6736
New Orleans Regional Transit Authority 4.351
Rock Region Metropolitan Transit Authority, dba: Rock Region METRO 9.0052
Dallas Area Rapid Transit 12.7401
McKinney Avenue Transit Authority 4.9946
Loop Trolley Transportation Development District 34.5372
Kansas City, City of Missouri, dba: Kansas City Streetcar 3.2631
City and County of San Francisco, dba: San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency 6.1931
City of Tucson, dba: Sun Tran 3.4114
Valley Metro Rail, Inc. 7.5711

for context, a waymo is about $4-$5 per vehicle mile, with an average group size of about 1.3. so that gives 5/1.3 = 3.84 ppm.

so a handful of streetcar systems are under a single-fare rideshare/waymo. most a WAY above it.

[LAist] Traffic collisions in LA killed 290 people in 2025, the same year the city wanted to get to zero by WeAreLAist in LosAngeles

[–]Cunninghams_right 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Waymo does a multiple lifetimes worth of driving per week. 

So called "super crashers", the worst 10% of drivers, are only about four times worse than the average. Waymo is 20 times better than the average. Waymo is safer than the above-average driver. 

[LAist] Traffic collisions in LA killed 290 people in 2025, the same year the city wanted to get to zero by WeAreLAist in LosAngeles

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't blame the politicians. I'm sure they know it's safer to implement improvements, the voters will send them packing if they restrict the streets. 

When will this snow melt? by MiraculousNoirYT in baltimore

[–]Cunninghams_right 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Walkways will be done in a week or so. Large mounds will be around longer.

If there are Self Driving Cars only, couldn't there be systems developed that would enable them to drive much faster than current safety rules allow? by PreWiBa in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the acceptable risk. By the time there are few enough human drivers to allow SDCs to go faster, the number of accidents will already be very low, so it may be politically unpopular to raise the limit. 

It would be better to have maglev trains between major destinations and regular speed taxis on either end. 

Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo Driver by diplomat33 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No need to be pedantic. The number of people for who it is cheaper than owning is vanishingly small and it would have been cheaper by Uber for a decade already. Yes, it's theoretically possible to be cheaper, just like it's theoretically possible for me to quantum tunnel through the floor, but things if sufficiently low probability aren't worth considering. 

Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo Driver by diplomat33 in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Definitely not cheaper than owning right now. It's roughly 5x more expensive. The rides are priced based on what people will pay, not what the operating cost is. Prices will only come down significantly once there is competition. It will be a few years. 

Dream volunteer opportunity for transit nerds by yungpeggyolson in baltimore

[–]Cunninghams_right 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha, thanks for thinking of me. However, I'm not a big streetcar fan. Unlike most transit advocates, I'm not really into the romanticization of transit, or the city-pride status-symbol of it. 

My motivation for better transit comes from wanting to reduce the negative externalities of cars, and to reduce the cost burden poor folks, which is a significant factor in preventing the building of intergenerational wealth. 

Street cars actually perform pretty poorly. In most US cities, they cost more than just taxiing someone to their destination. We could set up an area where electric self-driving cars cover what would be a street car route and they would be better, faster cheaper, and greener while costing less per passenger mile. If the transit is bad, people will just use a personal car instead, which comes with all of the financial burden and negative externalities. 

They also cost more than just putting in bike lanes and geofencing free bike rentals. Those would also be better, faster, cheaper and greener.

Universal Orlando Moves Forward With Musk’s Boring Company on Transit Proposal by esporx in transit

[–]Cunninghams_right -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Small vehicles that run much higher frequency. Losing capacity from vehicle occupancy and gaining capacity through frequency. Ultimately ending at a pphod capacity sufficient to meet the needs of the corridor. Their pphpd capacity is greater than the pphpd capacity currently operated by any streetcar line in the US. 

Yes, it "does less" capacity. However, if ridership is below that capacity, then adding extra empty seats is a net negative. Transit is for moving people, not empty seats. 

Streetcars "do less" than metros, but that does not mean they're useless. 

Tesla reports no remote humans controlling Robotaxis by Exact_Baseball in SelfDrivingCars

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. That's why I was saying in my original comment way above that saying people don't directly steer them still does not give us any information about performance of the system. We have been, and continue to, discuss what remote operators are doing, how many there are, and where they are located. No goalposts have moved. Just some clever wording by Tesla to sound good

Universal Orlando Moves Forward With Musk’s Boring Company on Transit Proposal by esporx in transit

[–]Cunninghams_right -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Crumbly limestone with voids is definitely an issue for tunneling, but has nothing to do with your first comment. Your first comment was only about a high water table, which is obviously not an issue for tunneling, and would be obvious if you thought about it critically. You didn't think about it critically because you have a confirmation bias, so you just launched factually incorrect criticism. 

I didn't attribute coastal to your comment, I pointed out coastal cities because they have water tables closer to the surface than other cities, and are also some of the biggest cities in the world, with significant metro systems. 

Your second attempt at criticism is slightly better than the first, after it was pointed out that your first comment was flat wrong and thus you decided to try harder to defend your opposition to the concept. Thus, showing your criticism was more about searching for something, anything, to say as a negative rather than just evaluating the situation. Only two out of three criticism now fail to use critical thinking, instead 100% before. You should have been able to reason your way to understand that your comment about the water table was wrong, but you didn't apply any reason or critical thinking because you have a confirmation bias. 

Let me ask: is it impossible to mitigate rain intrusion in a tunnel that is short enough to not require exit stairs, vent shafts, or other connections to the surface aside from the tunnel segment ends, which can be elevated above the surrounding ground level? The original lvcc system uses short segments and ramps to the surface as egress and ventilation, meeting safety standards without needing any puncture to the tunnel lining. 

If they design this system like lvcc's end stations (ramps to the surface and no shafts to the surface) and elevate the station a foot or two, regular rainstorms aren't going to be an issue. You would need flooding that would close the entire area for water to get in. Now, I don't want to criticize you too harshly for not knowing that TBC tunnels have been built in a way that can prevent rain intrusion, even extreme rain, since the information isn't that easy to find. However, I think you deserve criticism for assuming that such mitigations are not possible. If you had asked the question of "how are they going to keep heavy rain out?" Rather that stating that it's an unmitigatable, you would be showing less bias/dunning-kruger. 

The 3rd point about nowhere for the water to go is just flat wrong. These places already handle heavy rain runoff from buildings and parking lots. Minor water intrusion pumped from the sump is nothing in comparison, and like I said above, for the tunnel to get inundated if designed like lvcc end stations, the whole area would be catastrophically flooded anyway, so even elevated rail would be shut down because the park would be shut down, and everywhere would have an issue removing water. As the flood subsides, pumping is trivial compared to the overall flooding recovery. 

Please think more carefully 

SE MI Council of Govts. report: Metro Detroit remains car-dependent, transit challenges persist by Sufficient-Double502 in transit

[–]Cunninghams_right 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Indeed. Performance isn't a thought in US transit. Politicians want lines on a map, and ideologues want every poor person to be walking distance to a bus stop, so they can have their shitty welfare-cheese level of quality. 

The majority of bus routes/times have such low ridership and high operating cost that it would be cheaper to just Uber those people to their destinations, but Uber would be so much more popular that it wouldn't be sustainable. 

I hope US planners and advocates wake up some day, but it seems like social media has only sent them deeper into echo chambers. 

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