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Doug Gordon
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
Co-host, The War on Cars podcast. Writer, TV producer, creator of other things. Born at 330.21 ppm. I run a lot. (he/him) linktr.ee/brooklynspoke
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If you stop looking at the Robovan pictures and just repeat “A bus, but it can only carry 20 passengers” over and over again, eventually you start to understand the intellectual bankruptcy of not just Musk but most of Silicon Valley.

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Imagine if a single trolley car with no further modifications was dropped on a city street. It would still be better than this windowless oddity

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Rrouler.bsky.social

The car industry pulled a stunt with the so-called 'SUV' They are vans with windows and gullible idiots buy them in millions.

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LHlukebro92.bsky.social

Autonomous transportation is a solved problem. If we have a wholly independent rail based guideway, that is. Nuremberg even converted an existing line to automation without service interruption...

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Ssrpassesiton.bsky.social

It’s a pretty bus. Might get new passengers? 😜

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How else to transport a squad of stormtroopers? Come on, be reasonable, Comrade… #PrivateSecurityFirms#FuturePoliceState#StarWars#SciFiIsPoliticalCommentary

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JSjoshuasharp.bsky.social

"It's a bus, but shitty" is second only behind "It's a train, but shitty" in terms of common tech bro ideas.

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IOoaklandishdude.bsky.social

I mean I look at it and just think it's the spacing guilds new spaceship

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Ccbarone1.bsky.social

What really makes me realize that the future of humanity is in good hands is knowing that the richest man in the world solved all problems of public transportation by inventing a third of a bus.

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DGbrooklynspoke.bsky.social

It’s too bad that there isn’t a much bigger vehicle that is literally called the “team bus,” because how else would you take a sports team somewhere other than in a 20-person windowless van?

The robovan is what’s gonna solve for high density,” he said. “So if you want to take a sports team somewhere, or you’re looking to really get the cost of travel down to, I don’t know, 5-10, cents a mile, then you can use the robovan.”
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Doug Gordon
@brooklynspoke.bsky.social
Co-host, The War on Cars podcast. Writer, TV producer, creator of other things. Born at 330.21 ppm. I run a lot. (he/him) linktr.ee/brooklynspoke
6.3k followers918 following3.6k posts