Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit::The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.
So the guy who notoriously despises public transit failed to come through on his promise to revolutionize public transit?
Wow.
I mean, who could have seen that coming?
No, this was the point. He set mass transit back by at least a decade with his ridiculous projects.
Yeah, imagine if all the taxpayer money he got to build a useless tunnel in Vegas was spent on something, you know, useful.
What’s sad is, we will never see musk supporters come out and admit they were wrong. They are all gung-ho before the money changes hands, then when the grift happens and we have nothing to show for it, they all disappear.
Hamas has built more tunnels than Musk. Let that sink in.
I’ve built more tunnels than his company.
And most of those were just fucking around because I could, not even for a specific purpose.
Lpt: don’t dig without telling someone exactly where you are,and without a noise maker.
Hamas is rather good at building tunnels in the hostile environment of sometimes being bombed. If they’d have funds and modern tech … ah, well, they’d embezzle the funds and use that tech for something destructive, but if they wouldn’t, they’d be great tunnel makers.
People who support musk probably aren’t big fans of public infrastructure and probably would have derogatory shit to say about people who are
Richard Branson hates public transit? Cause it’s his company that shut down, Virgin Hyperloop One.
No one reads the article, my guy. Everyone just assumes it’s Musk’s imbecilic project, when in reality it’s Branson’s imbecilic project.
It was born to fail, because its porpoise was to delay and sabotage the California high speed train project.
Yea, it was a very fishy initiative
Elon literally came out and said it was to delay/sabotage the train project
https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1571628269555826688?lang=en
Yea, it wasn’t an ocean of stupid so much as Elon dangling the idea of a better alternative like the esca of an angler fish with the intention to gobble up the plans for the train project.
A) I applaud you for your masterful continuation of the pelagic theme of this discussion about Elon porpoisely allowing this project to flounder into Davy Jone’s locker.
B) TIL that an anglerfish lure is called an esca and that a sufficiently literate person can seamlessly weave such an unusual word into this net of fishy discourse… Bravo!
Never be surprised at what you may catch sight of in the ocean that is called The Internet
It’s not even like trains are his white whale, he’s just trying to break any alternative to cars before they can catch on
“Better” he hyped up a stupid economically non viable shit so his car company can stay relevant
Looks like the jokes sailed over your head on this one. /c/woosh
This isn’t Elon’s hyperloop. It’s a company called Hyperloop One, predominately funded by Richard Branson.
Distinction without a difference
This gets misquoted all the time.
The purpose wasn’t to delay the high speed rail, in favor of the hyperloop.
It was to delay/stop the high speed rail for something better as he didn’t think the existing plan was high speed enough or would be cost effective and on time. Faster high speed trains were already being built and with all the delays this would (and has) faced, it’d be even further back by the time it was finished.
The difference there is pretty important, unless you fall into the conspiracy camp of the intent was to delay it so he could sell more cars and he actually doesn’t want anything made.
But the goal was to stop it so they’d make it better than planned, not make a hyperloop.
Edit: and before people reply, it’s fast enough, it doesn’t need to be the best etc etc. That’s fine if that’s your stance. I’m just saying what was actually going on, and you don’t have to agree with him.
Just because his lie was technically a slightly different one makes no matter, it was still a lie and it was still stupid that all those government regulators and legislators fell for it.
It’s only a lie if you think his goal was to sell more cars.
Maybe it was or wasn’t.
Oh whale…
Successful grift is successful!
Congrats, dipshits of LA and Vegas! Can’t wait to see what dumb crap you waste your money on next!
Monorail?
Is there a chance the track could bend?
Not on your life my Hindu friend!
What about us brain-dead slobs?
“You’ll be given cushy jobs!”
The ring came off my pudding can!
Use my pen knife my good man!
The ring came off my pudding can!
Vegas already has a poorly implemented monorail.
Not if the Legion has a say in it, profligate!
Ave! True to Caesar.
Fuck this grift and all other grifts by Elmo.
Elmo muskrat lmao
How did calling him Elmo become a diss when Elmo is such an emotionally mature role model created for children to emulate.
Metro systems still going since 1863
Its maddening, we have the real solution. Its not flashy magitech that will instantaneously move you while leaving your fecal matter behind. It is just fucking hi speed rail. Turns out, putting a bunch of people that all need to take a largely similar path on a high capacity, fast moving vehicle is just really efficient.
This is like watching a children’s show where they pause before they give thr answer, but instead of giving a logical answer they regurgitate nonsense.
Next you’re going to tell me that that not only does humanity already have trains that can do 200mph (320 km/h): but they’re more reliable, safer, cheaper to build/operate, and can can carry a ton of people per trip.
I remember seeing all the big brain French train engineers blowing the fuck out of the Hyperloop back in the 2010s, matching up with my understanding of the technology and I guess that was the moment the Musk Hypnotism broke for me. We really don’t even need maglevs, we can still move fast on iron, maglevs are only proposed to improve density by speed.
It was frustrating to see friends and cohorts think the hyperloop would solve a solved problem. And do it in a cost-efficient way. It didn’t do either.
Touching grass is not enough, I want Elon Musk to get cancer in his dick and die
For all of his fans, he also has a lot of anti-fans. I’m surprised none of them have thrown him out the window of the twitter HQ or whatever. I guess he’s paying his security team a lot.
I mean… it was elon’s idea after all.
No, it wasn’t. This shit has been common in sci-fi for decades. He just gave it a fancy name and pretended he came up with it.
It was so obvious that this wouldn’t work that even Elon Musk didn’t want to have anything to do with it besides posting his brainfart on the Internet for the whole world to smell.
No way. Who could have seen that one coming?
how many miles of high speed rail has china built in that time?
If only we could fly like birds from LA to Vegas.
Awww no waaaay maintaining a hundred mile long vacuum tube in a state that gets earthquakes more often than Seattle gets rain wasn’t viable? Who could have possibly anticipated that??
I had more faith in solar frickin highways and that was already 0.
