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    If he doesn't do it, nobody will.

Now you're just being insulting. You're arguing that rich white people unfettered by regulation are better for the community than everyone else who has to follow process.

LA Metro 1990:

LA Metro through 2025.

I hate LA, I hate LA traffic, but I can go from Pasadena to Long Beach in an hour for $2.50. And millions of people do. Brown people, black people, rich people, poor people. My white friends usually say "LA has a subway?" and I say "yeah, that runs at capacity 24-7 standing room only in most places." They're not on it, of course. They're dreaming of buying a Tesla to replace their Prius which replaced their Audi when the wheels finally fell off from 30,000 single-occupancy miles a year.

Listen to yourself - you're effectively saying if only those rich white people would listen to another rich white person, everything would be okay but on Musk's extraordinarily optimistic map, there's no line through Beverly Hills.

Musk thinks he's going to tunnel from OC to fuckin' Panorama City but he sure as shit ain't crossing Wilshire. That's white privilege recognizing white privilege and winkwink nudgenudging its way around the problem, a keep-me-in-my-bubble approach to mole-peopleing your way through the neighborhoods you roll up your windows because it's "hot" you see.

Elon Musk spent ten million dollars pretending to come up with a traffic solution for rich people. "We can upgrade your self-driving car for $2-300." 'k. What about the guys who already can't afford the fuckin' Fastrak tolls? You know what the LA riots were about? They were about this shit.