Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 year agoThis 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 1 year 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.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s only a lie if you think his goal was to sell more cars.
Maybe it was or wasn’t.
dustyData@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And you think Elon Musk, the man who owns a car making company, wasn’t trying to sell more cars?
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well, one implies malice, and the other pushing for a better more futuristic future.
And he has a history of pushing for a ln idealistic futuristic future, with pushing spacex to figure out how to land rockets or how to make a profitable EV, so ya, I’m willing to say there’s a likely chance he was honest in thinking it was a bad idea and California, the home of silicon valley and advanced technology could maybe come up with something better.
But we’ll never really know.