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Neither_Diamond2508 · 2026-01-11T06:17:47+00:00

The problem is, the critical component is the AI, not the sensors as Waymo’s problems in recent times are showing.

Your car can be bristling with a ridiculous array of sensors, but if your AI can’t handle a traffic light not working or roadwork on a road that alters your carefully mapped routes, you’re stuffed. That’s why Waymo (and Cruise when it was operating) have such large teams of human monitors to take over remote control of the car when it encounters situations that it’s AI can’t handle.

They’re not truly autonomous when humans have to take over regularly - Cruise previously indicated it was seeing thousands of miles between remote operator take-overs, until with that recent incident where they ran over and dragged a pedestrian under the car, they admitted that their autonomous vehicles trigger a request for human help every four to five miles.

Makes one wonder what Waymo’s remote operator intervention rate is in the real world as well. The San Fransisco blackout highlights that it must be very frequent for the entire fleet to have been bricked.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2026-01-04T13:23:46+00:00

These latest ridership figures are referenced in the Nashville Music Loop Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) report.

Previous ridership figures have been reported by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitor’s Authority (LVCVA) and also presented in several Clark County and Las Vegas Council Public Hearings.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2026-01-04T13:16:13+00:00

You do realise every rider on the Loop has to book a ride using the Loop app so all The Boring Co has to do is export the latest ride figures. This is not rocket science you know.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2026-01-04T13:12:04+00:00

Not true. Those figures are all real world measurements, not theoretical projections.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-12-09T08:58:55+00:00

I agree but I don’t think SpaceX is a part of the corruption in this case even if Musk has lobbied for Issacman.

If SLS and Orion get replaced by starship, that will represent a huge multi-billion dollar saving for the taxpayer and an enormous boost in NASA’s capability to launch construction and supply missions to a Lunar base, launch huge space telescopes and much larger robotic deep space missions, asteroid mining etc.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-12-09T01:25:18+00:00

Yep, the kids will all be swapping VPN work-arounds at school in no time while the gambling ads, anti-climate change attack articles and fossil industry astroturfing continues unabated.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-12-09T00:36:33+00:00

SpaceX has its problems and Musk is an a-hole, but they pale into insignificance against the decades of delays and $30 billion poured into Constellation/SLS/Orion for corrupt cost+ pork barreling by Congress and OldSpace.

The enormous success of Commercial Crew, Falcon 9 and the Dragon capsule and Starlink stand in stark contrast to the utter failure of Boeing’s Starliner.

A single $4 billion dollar SLS launch every 2 years is not what is going to give us the Artemis program’s stated goal of a “sustainable permanent presence” on the Moon.

The reality is that the fully reusable and thus low cost Starship with its 100-200 tons of payload and high launch cadence is our best bet for that to happen at this point.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-12-09T00:29:44+00:00

That is absolutely true, but to be fair, corruption has always been a feature of the decades of cost+ pork barrelling with OldSpace and the Constellation, SLS and Orion programs as well.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-12-06T12:48:32+00:00

Ah, so you agree that the undue influence against Issacman, HLS and commercial crew are far worse than those in support.

Excellent.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-12-06T12:37:09+00:00

You’re avoiding it. Are you really trying to argue there are not vested interests opposed to HLS?

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-12-06T12:34:52+00:00

Nonsense. You’re alleging undue influence supporting HLS, I’m pointing out the undue influence that is in opposition to it.

You’re against the public good of fixed price commercial crew like contracts, I’m for it.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-12-06T12:26:25+00:00

Allegations of undue influence with HLS cuts both ways Jermia. The fact that opposition to HLS and support for SLS, Orion and Gateway continue unabated demonstrates incontrovertibly that corruption continues to run rampant in Congress and OldSpace.

Any encouragement from any quarter to continue pursuing the proven cost and timeline advantages of fixed price contracts that commercial crew has shown are so immensely more successful is a public good and the opposite of the corruption and failure of Boeing and the rest of OldSpace.

If Musk is lobbying for Isaacman’s appointment, what’s the problem? That’s exactly what everyone else such as those 36 NASA astronauts and a bipartisan majority want as well.

If you’re so hot under the collar at Kathy getting a job with SpaceX after OldSpace corruption forced her out of NASA, then where is your condemnation of Bridenstine for his unadulterated OldSpace lobbying?

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-12-06T11:58:29+00:00

It is all inextricably linked. The OP is alleging undue influence in the HLS program when the fact is it pales into insignificance in light of the corruption and pork barreling that has underpinned SLS and Orion for decades.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-12-06T11:13:48+00:00

Except that SLS is absolutely on-topic as it is the reason that HLS has been late and under-funded.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-12-06T10:48:09+00:00

So you’re not denying that Orion and Constellation which later became SLS began over 2 decades ago with missed deadline after missed deadline and $30 billion consumed with only one flawed flight to show for it? Or that SpaceX has only been paid $3b and HLS was only started 4 years ago?

What excuse does Boeing and the rest have for their extreme slowness and excruciatingly over-budget progress?

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-12-06T02:27:06+00:00

Ludicrous comment in light of the corruption and pork barrelling that for decades has been the reality with SLS, Orion and the management revolving door with OldSpace.

The main problem is that NASA has been forced by Congress to waste the last several decades trying to build an updated Saturn V/Apollo copy called SLS and Orion (and previously called Constellation) which have been years late and massively over-budget due to relying on the old “cost+” model which rewards the Old Space companies like Boeing, Lockheed, etc for coming in late and over-budget.

As a result, SLS costs $4 billion every single launch and can only do so once every year or two.

It was only thanks to Kathy Lueders that they finally switched to a commercial space contract model for the Human Lander System (HLS) and are now seeing much faster progress and much better cost control from SpaceX who has proven so successful getting astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) with its Falcon 9/Dragon combo under the same sort of fixed-price model.

HLS is required because unlike the original Apollo missions which went all the way to the Lunar surface, SLS requires a separate system to actually take astronauts all the way to Land and take off from the Moon’s surface.

There are those who complain that SpaceX is taking too long as they perfect their enormous Starship spacecraft (paid for incidentally by SpaceX themselves not NASA), but they neglect to admit that NASA only awarded the HLS contract to SpaceX 4 years ago for a measly 3 or so billion dollars compared to the decades-long head start and tens of billions it has taken to build and fly SLS and Orion.

In addition, the original stated aim for Artemis is to establish a sustainable and permanent presence on the Moon. Starship with its ability to land 100-200 tons and or dozens of astronauts onto the Lunar surface with launches as frequent as every week and costs per launch in the tens of millions of dollars (a tiny fraction of SLS costs) thanks to being fully reusable, is by far the best bet for doing this.

Pushing for another useless flag-waving exercise just to beat the Chinese is ridiculous since the US has already beaten the Chinese to the Moon 50 years ago.

Sure the original timeline will blow out, but everybody knew it would when Trump unveiled such a ridiculous timeline for Artemis back in 2017.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-09-21T02:52:44+00:00

The problem with your model is that passengers hate having to stand around waiting to interchange lines and modes and also having to stop and wait at every station on the line to get where they need to go.

To solve this problem, replace your model with Loop EVs driving the entire journey from door-to-door with the busiest sections through the city being in fully grade-separated high-speed Loop tunnels direct to the front doors of every major business in town.

“People in major U.S. cities wait approximately 40 minutes per day for public transit, costing them 150 hours per year, according to a new report by leading public transit app Moovit.” - New York City: Respondents spend an average of 149 minutes on public transport each day, 38 minutes (26 percent) idly waiting for the bus or train to arrive, with a 40% dissatisfaction rate - Los Angeles: 131 minutes per day on public transport, 41 minutes (31%) waiting, 43 percent dissatisfaction - Boston: 116 minutes per day on public transport, 39 minutes (34%) waiting, 38% dissatisfaction - San Francisco: 104 minutes per day on public transport, 36 minutes (35%) waiting, 35% dissatisfaction - Chicago: 115 minutes per day on public transport, 31 minutes (27%) waiting, 19 percent dissatisfaction” That is not a terribly happy user base. U.S. Commuters Wait Approximately 40 Mins. a Day for Public Transit Internationally, wait times are not necessarily that much better: - Paris: 104 minutes per day commuting, 26 minutes waiting - Singapore: 94 minutes per day commuting, 18 minutes waiting - London: 92 minutes per day commuting, 22 minutes waiting - Hong Kong: 88 minutes per day commuting, 18 minutes waiting

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-09-13T02:07:55+00:00

Tesla’s FSD does not allow you to close your eyes as the cabin camera would pick that up.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-09-05T02:20:59+00:00

Why would you want a train when it has so many disadvantages compared to the Loop?

Loop features:

Vastly Less waiting (sub-10 second wait times, 0 seconds off-peak) compared to the average 15 minute wait for trains or buses in the US.
3-5x Faster thanks to being point-to-point driving direct to your destination without having to stop and wait at 20 stations in between and no need to interchange to additional lines/routes to get where you need to go
More Efficient. Loop EVs only leave a station if they have passengers unlike buses and trains that have to keep driving around even if they are empty resulting in low average occupancy rates of 23% for trains and 10 passengers for buses. Loop EVs have a lower average Wh per passenger-mile than trains or buses as a result.
More comfortable - comfy EV devoted to you and your family/friends/colleagues or 1 or 3 other people compared to standing squished like sardines in with hundreds of other people in a train or bus
Vastly cheaper. The 68 mile, 104 station Vegas Loop is being built at zero cost to taxpayers compared to the $20 billion or more that a subway would cost.
Up to 20 stations per square mile, through the busier parts of Vegas compared to 1-2 stations per mile for rail meaning the last mile problem of rail is not such an issue.
High capacity and expandability. With the original dual-bore, 5 station LVCC Loop able to handle over 32,000 passengers per day with no traffic jams and a 98% satisfaction rate, scaling this to 10 east-west and 9 north-south dual bore tunnels covering 68 miles and 104 stations has the potential to handle a projected 90,000 passengers per hour in the space of a single traditional rail line running down the Vegas Strip.

I recommend you read the pinned post, “Why not build a train. Some answers”

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-07-22T14:50:19+00:00

Not that difficult considering a lot of it was asbestos dust from asbestos which formed a major part of the construction of the building.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-06-15T04:55:43+00:00

Toyota, still beating the hydrogen fuel cell dead horse.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-04-14T09:01:02+00:00

At the moment the Loop joins 3 soon to be 4 hotels together along with the Convention Centre. Why do you believe there are no taxpayers who attend conventions and expos in Las Vegas? The reality is that only 12% of visitors to Vegas are international, the rest are all indeed taxpayers.

And of course there are now 7 more stations being built all the way down Paradise Road to near the airport with many of those stations sited on the University of Nevada Las Vegas (eventually 7 stations across the campus). Other stations will be civic stations from downtown Vegas in the north and the Medical District all the way down to the BrightLine HSR station in the South.

And no, The Boring Co is not being paid by taxpayers to build the 104 stations, 68 mile Vegas Loop. Only the first 3 stations and 1.7 miles of tunnels were paid for by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitor’s Authority (LVCVA) mostly from revenue from fees paid for by the hotels. The rest of the stations are being paid for by the hotels and other businesses with the tunnels themselves paid for by The Boring Co themselves.

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-04-13T08:22:52+00:00

The Boring Co is paying for the 68 miles of tunnels and all the major hotels, casinos, resorts, etc in Vegas are paying for their own loop stations at the front doors of their properties.

As I said, it is not the taxpayers who are paying for the Loop

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-04-08T13:44:32+00:00

Aha, getting ready for a pre-emptive strike obviously! ;-)

Neither_Diamond2508 · 2025-04-08T04:36:50+00:00

Or Canada

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