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EspiritdescaliMA to FuturologyEnglish · 9 months ago

Los Angeles is in a 4-year sprint to deliver a car-free 2028 Olympics

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Los Angeles is in a 4-year sprint to deliver a car-free 2028 Olympics

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EspiritdescaliMA to FuturologyEnglish · 9 months ago
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Can a city that’s synonymous with freeways and gridlock deliver a car-free Olympic Games? Los Angeles has picked up the torch.
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    9 months ago

    They pay elon 10billions to build a hyperloop or something

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      9 months ago

      That proposal by Musk was so bad that it is possible that it was a move to impede/prevent the rail-project california had planned by proposing a “better” idea.

      https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-california-high-spee-1849402460

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        9 months ago

        You are correct. He admitted it himself.

        https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788

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      9 months ago

      In four years? This is the same guy who said we’d be colonizing Mars in 2025 after launching a starship voyage in 2022. The same guy who for 10 years has been saying self driving car features are less than a year away.

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