A novel use case for a fleet of cybertrucks

[mikeg]

Utah Department of Transportation is planning to spend over $1 billion to build a gondola up Little Cottonwood Canyon. 80% of Utahns don't want it built. The start date keeps getting pushed back because of the outrage.

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$600 million = 12,000 Cybertrucks. LOL. I know, I know ... such a crazy idea. But I gotta get it out there. FSD is sooooo close. Every fifth truck up on powder days could have a snow plow; less need for heavy equipment.

It's for reals ...
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2023/1...-canyon-gondola-protest-wasatch-front-meeting

Here's my starter Tweet ...

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[Revoltlution]

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[Crissa]

A Gondola does less impact to a valley than a road of traffic...

-Crissa

 

[mikeg]

The road, nor the traffic, is going away. The gondola is an over-engineered, flashy and expensive attempt to reduce traffic on powder days when SR210 turns into a parking lot. UDOT admits they probably wont run it that often over the summer months. There's no chance a gondola that size will last 20 years w/out several major infrastructure adjustments. And in 50 years it'll be a bunch of rusting towers and massive cement blocks littering our beautiful canyon.

Electric busses and EV ride sharing are the least environmentally impactful solution.

 

[Crissa]

The road, nor the traffic, is going away. The gondola is an over-engineered, flashy and expensive attempt to reduce traffic on powder days when SR210 turns into a parking lot. UDOT admits they probably wont run it that often over the summer months. There's no chance a gondola that size will last 20 years w/out several major infrastructure adjustments. And in 50 years it'll be a bunch of rusting towers and massive cement blocks littering our beautiful canyon.

Electric busses and EV ride sharing are the least environmentally impactful solution.

So you want to replace the parking lot with...
...busses stuck in traffic so people won't opt for them on a road that's more expensive to maintain than a gondola.

And EV busses aren't a cheap solution, either. At least not yet.

The solution has to have advantages, or people won't adopt it. That's Tesla's secret sauce. Their cars are better.

-Crissa

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