Okay but Elon also makes crazy grandiose statements on a daily basis.
Comment on Hyperloop One is reportedly shutting down
lukewarmtuna@lemmy.world 6 months agoElon said himself that he did it to kill HSR lmao
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 6 months ago
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, he legitimately didn’t want that specific HSR plan to happen and wanted to get it stopped.
He thought it was going to be to expensive, slow and already be outdated by the time it was finally built.
There are already faster trains being built today.
Most people turn that into he is 100% against high speed rail and make it a conspiracy about wanting to sell more cars.
We won’t ever know the truth.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 6 months ago
He did it to kill that specific plan.
He wanted something better.
You can either take him at his word, or fall into the conspiracy camp of selling more cars, but thats the 2 options you get.