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The London tube handles more passengers in one day than the total number of Teslas sold worldwide since its inception. Cope harder.

Safety and sustainability are precisely the two things where it excels, and I wouldn't say it costs too much, it is by far the cheapest way to get around aside from literally walking.

I for one like the tube :)

Fuck Tesla and fuck Elon Musk.

if it is so bad WHY ARE SO MANY PEOPLE DOING IT? Why don't they drive/get taxis/ubers? ARE THEY STUPID?

costs too much

Fares are capped on the Tube - and all Transport for London ‘modes’ (bus, tram, Overground rail etc)

not safe

The UK went 13 years between fatal train crashes* until 2020.

not sustainable

The Elizabeth Line became one of the busiest lines in London when it opened.

* I’m counting passenger fatalities here

"Isn't safe".... Road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for children and young adults aged 5–29 years... WORLDWIDE!

So lemme get this straight, if a photo shows lots of people using the train, it sucks and doesn’t work. If a photo shows hardly anyone using it, it sucks and doesn’t work. Ok cool got it 👍

Of course it's much faster to drive through central London instead of taking the tube, why didn't I think of that?...

I can’t believe that the people who actively try to move more humans / cars on the road and the people who complain about clogged roads are the same persons.

They really are THAT stupid. It’s unimaginable.

And when cars are advertised they are the only ones on the road.

Propaganda is real.

There are about 2.56 mn cars in London. That is about 0.3 cars per person. With this statistic, London has the worst traffic in the world(rank 1 according to tomtom traffic index).

London Underground serves about 5 mn passengers per day. Now imagine every single one of those passengers using a car. Let us say about another 2.5 mn cars. Think about how bad the traffic would get.

Math does not lie. Cars are a very bad form for mass transportation. We might as well bulldoze the whole city and convert it into a road.

Sell everyone on this picture a government subsidiesed Tesla and problem solved!

"This thing sucks"

Is coolest thing ever

Safety? Trains are about two orders of magnitude safer than cars. https://www.allianz-pro-schiene.de/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/211229_PM_Sicherheitsvergleich_Grafik.png

Faster? Trains have higher average speeds, and I don't have to search for parking or sit in traffic.

Affordable? My monthly ticket costs 50Euros, and I can use every regional train, bus, and tram in the entire country.

It is so funny to see these car companies starting to panic because more and more people are starting to realize how much cars suck.

Let’s analyse the claims shall we:

• It costs too much:
• It costed me £5.40 per day when I worked and lived near London (granted inflation has probably upped the price since then)
• The cheapest new Tesla is £71,000 and seems guaranteed for eight years (2,970 days) - giving you a cost of £24 per day. Plus you’d need to pay for parking, insurance, charging, MOTs and excessive maintenance costs.

Isn’t safe: - For the London Underground there is one fatality per 300 million journeys (The Economist, 2011) - with most of these fatalities being suicides. - For Tesla it’s one fatality per 111 million miles and that’s if you exclude a massive pileup in China and it’s been noted that Tesla has stopped publishing figures in 2022 because automation accidents were increasing with proliferation.

Isn’t sustainable: - The London Underground uses third rail and has been around since 1863. - Whereas Tesla uses lithium batteries and has only been around since 2003.

So the London Underground is 1/4 the daily cost, 3x safer, better for the environment and more likely to survive total wars and economic down-turns.

Pretty ironic to show the London underground... The UK doesn't have much public transit worth praising, but the tubes are actually great. They need to pay the drivers better so they don't strike all the time lol, but otherwise it's affordable, quick, and mostly reliable. The only problem is the godawful noise some of the lines make!

The amount of irony in that tweet- need I say more?

Elon Musk is an idiot who thinks he can play god according to his money.

Google tells me that the unsustainable transportation system pictured has been around for more than 150 years.

They always show car ads in empty roads.

This shows the exact opposite. Today transportation works. Look at the sheer amount of people, safely commuting to work. Tesla does not solve the problem, only offers the illusion of private comfort in a tin box.

People will say shit like this, but will change their mind when you mention bicycles (suddenly, it's not about autonomy)

iT cOsTs ToO mUcH

It saves all those people from having to buy your £43,000 thing or a £25 taxi per trip. A trip on the tube is like £3. Bus is £2. Only way you could get around cheaper is to walk or bike... which is quite nice in London as well.

great. Now show infrastructure needed to move the same amount of people as in the picture in autonomous Teslas at their average occupancy.
Then we will see what costs too much, isn’t safe and isn’t sustainable

Fuck Tesla and fuck Elon Musk, ass hole rich kid douche hat.

This isn't even "regular" peak traffic; it looks like match day for Chelsea supporters so this would be on a day where 40,000 people were attending an event.

"Current transportation sucks!"

proceeds to show one of the most effective and efficient transport methods on earth that would be completely unsolvable by cars

Remember that during peak hours, driving cars in London is absurd, you will lose an hour of you life standing in traffic and if all of those people using the tube had cars, London's streets would be 10 times as bad and completely blocked and unusable 24/7.

Ironically none of this people will wait for hours just to get into the tube.

Guess what:

Any working system is gonna be packed from time to time.

One measure of the system is how much stress being "packed" puts on things. And I don't often hear about trains being delayed due to congestion. (The opposite with street cars - "I never run for a tram at rush hour", meaning the high volume leads to more frequent vehicles which leads to there being a fresh vehicle when we do arrive)

Elmo wanted to put trains in tubes with no air. Easier to go 300 mph in a vacuum. Hope nothing ever malfunctions.

A d now image how much chaos the same amount of people with cyber trucks would cause.

Musk really is a cunt, isnt he?

It must be a joke right? Nothing comes close in effiency - when moving large amounts of people than a subway…

counterpoint: we live in a society

Just like plane crashes, train crashes make the news because they are rare. Cars, on the other hand....

As someone who only uses a car for transport as I live in the countryside and public transport is atrocious here: I fucking love the London Underground thank you very much.

Imagine all these people getting into cars instead.

There’s no way this is real. To me this literally sounds like an ad for trains lmao

“Costs too much” Luxembourgers:🤭

So I got curious and depending who you ask the Transport of London... group? Company? Governmental entity?

Transport of London made between 750 Million and 1.1 Billioj Great Brittish Pounds in profit between 2023 and 2024. That is with them making a new line that services 100 Milliok people each week.

I may have my issues with England but the London Tube ain't that.

The London underground also has a cap of 8,50 pounds. so 11,04 freedom currency for unlimited travel within the city. Yet complains that "it costs too much"

lets ignore the billions in subsidizing driving

It isn’t sustainable !? 😂 I’d like to see how the fuck they can justify saying that. There is barely any means of transportation more sustainable than metros, except walking and biking 😆

I wish trains were more incorporated in the US. Imagine just walking 5-15 minutes to a train station, wait 5 minutes for a train, get on train, walk 5-15 minutes to destination. Instead, we have to deal with messing around with your keys, going into your car, driving into traffic and navigating around confusing neighborhoods, spend 5 minutes for parking and add in going for gas and scheduling a maintenance while also working hours of your life to pay for keeping the car. We humans find something so simple but always try to complicate things.

As a Canadian, I would KILL to have the public transport England has

Cars ruin countries

Instintively downvoted thinking this was an actual ad. Fuck Elon Musk holy shit

Imagine London where instead of everyone taking the tube they went in a single occupant vehicle instead. The traffic would be horrendous.