Musk came rushing in like he was selling a monorail.
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driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 6 months ago
It was born to fail, because its porpoise was to delay and sabotage the California high speed train project.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 6 months ago
Uli@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Oh whale…
Deiv@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Yea, it was a very fishy initiative
kameecoding@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Elon literally came out and said it was to delay the train project
june@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
Telstarado@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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 am 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!
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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
kameecoding@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“Better” he hyped up a stupid economically non viable shit so his car company can stay relevant
rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This isn’t Elon’s hyperloop. It’s a company called Hyperloop One, predominately funded by Richard Branson.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Distinction without a difference
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.
dustyData@lemmy.world 6 months ago
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.