That’s how many turns the subway system’s most high-traffic turnstile — No. 602 in Fare Control Area R238, located in Grand Central-42nd Street station — is estimated to do in a year. That’s more throughput than some whole transit systems combined. These durable three-armed machines called tripods are designed by a company called Cubic, which also oversees the MTA’s fare collection system. And boy are they built to last.
Tesla paid X $280,000 for advertising and other services, according to the company’s proxy statement. X paid Tesla $1.02 million for unspecified work. SpaceX paid Tesla $2.9 million for “certain commercial, licensing and support agreements.” Tesla paid SpaceX $800,000 for use of its corporate jet. And Tesla paid the Boring Company $1.2 million.
No one paid Neuralink anything.
Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown (D), for one, who is calling for an outright ban on plug-in vehicles from the rival country. “Chinese electric vehicles are an existential threat to the American auto industry,” Brown said, echoing a similar comment made recently by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The concern is that Chinese EVs are so cheap — BYD’s Seagull sells for around $10,000 — that domestic automakers couldn’t possibly compete.
