An estimated $4 to $20 billion in value, what is he thinking?

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Got any sources for that? I’ve never seen anyone claim it’s a success

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Here’s a source for passing the capacity requirement during a test. Again I’m not saying it’s going to work when scaled but so far it seems plausible and was far cheaper than building a train or rail between the ends of the convention center. And it has the wow factor.

The big benefits are supposed to come once the vehicles can skip all other stops and go directly to the destination. We’ll see.

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So they passed the tests they set for capacity? Eh, not really impressed. Thanks though.

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It was a capacity number set by LVCVA (the customer), but yeah. Not much else they can do yet since it’s a small system and events that take over the entire convention center are intermittent.

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