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   myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 10:35:26 JST myrmepropagandist

   Wow it transports 20 people. ooooh I have an idea, what if we connected a bunch of these together... in a long chain and put them on tracks to make them more energy efficient (and to meet power needs) then ran them along the most popular transportation corridors in major cities! They could even go in tunnels in places like NYC to reduce traffic!

   Golly Elon is on to something this time!

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     jr conlin —〰— (jrconlin@soc.jrconlin.com)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 10:35:32 JST jr conlin —〰—

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     @futurebird

     I dunno. 20 people doesn't seem like a lot.

     I wonder if there's an electric vehicle that might hold a few more than that?

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     smellsofbikes (smellsofbikes@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 11:45:59 JST smellsofbikes

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     @futurebird He's building something expensive and flashy to suck up lots of money that would otherwise go to actually effective, real-world public transit. It's infuriating.

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     Nicovel0 (nicovel0@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 20:44:03 JST Nicovel0

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     • cache mx

     @futurebird @amsomniac I live in London, UK. Roughly every 15 minutes an electric bus that can carry up to 60-ish people (not a double decker) drives past my house. It’s made by a Chinese company. It would blow Musk’s mind away.

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     qwazix (qwazix@bananachips.club)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 20:44:03 JST qwazix

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     • Nicovel0

     @Nicovel0 @futurebird @amsomniac I live in athens. Batteryless electric buses have been driving around the city the last ~60 years. Now there are a few hundred chinese battery powered busses as well.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 20:44:04 JST myrmepropagandist

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     Dude really said "but what if we need to move a lot of people" and gave us 1/3 of "The People Mover" from Detroit but somehow worse.

     @amsomniac

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     cache mx (amsomniac@mastodon.mit.edu)'s status on Monday, 14-Oct-2024 20:44:05 JST cache mx

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     @futurebird our company's goal is to "reinvent trains" and I think you'll see, we're slowly but surely on track to achieve it.