Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit::The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.
It was born to fail, because its porpoise was to delay and sabotage the California high speed train project.
Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit
Submitted 4 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
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driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 4 months ago
Deiv@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Yea, it was a very fishy initiative
kameecoding@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Elon literally came out and said it was to delay the train project
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Musk came rushing in like he was selling a monorail.
Uli@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Oh whale…
chitak166@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Successful grift is successful!
Congrats, dipshits of LA! Can’t wait to see what dumb crap you waste your money on next!
davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Monorail?
vividspecter@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Is there a chance the track could bend?
MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Vegas already has a poorly implemented monorail.
SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Hydrogen cars and trains.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fuck this grift and all other grifts by Elmo.
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 4 months ago
How did calling him Elmo become a diss when Elmo is such an emotionally mature role model created for children to emulate.
scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Elmo muskrat lmao
Red_October@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No way, you mean this insane nonsense that was obviously never going to work isn’t going to work after all? Damn.
eldain@feddit.nl 4 months ago
I’m impressed they could get their momentum going for so long, they were able to burn so much money and only now are investors pulling out? That was a serious hype train! Even if it was meant as lobby sponsoring against standard high speed rail, holy cow what a waste!
Allero@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Hey, at least this time it really was a hype train
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Colour me shocked.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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.
oatscoop@midwest.social 4 months ago
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.
Psh, like that would ever work.
Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
If you’ve ever been to Japan, you can only roll your eyes if you read about how people can fall for that “hyperloop” scam. The Hyperloop concept is just unrealistic, dangerous and expensive. The Japanese high speed train system is very efficient and absolutely reliable. 🚅
Sirico@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Metro systems still going since 1863
Smacks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Invest in actual public transportation: I sleep
Invest in an overly expensive alternative to trains: REAL SHIT
guacupado@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Like all these fake trees or solar trees or carbon vacuums instead of just planting more trees.
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Tech bros will call trains unviable and obsolete and then burn truckloads of money on shit like this
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
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??
lovesickoyster@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean… it was elon’s idea after all.
Tnaeriv@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
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.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No way. Who could have seen that one coming?
Aleric@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I saw it not coming at Hyperloop speeds!
aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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 world to smell.
dustyData@lemmy.world 4 months ago
He admitted on record that he only spouted that bullshit to counter a bid for high speed transit in California. He was never interested in the slightest to ever pursue that idea in good faith. It worked, the project was canned to invest in Hyperloop and now US transit will continue to be shit because one douche bag with more money than sense opened his pie hole. And apparently US politics listens exclusively to people with more money than the average country’s budget.
Aleric@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So just a continuation of the motor vehicle industry sabotaging public transportation so people have to buy more vehicles.
Capitalist ‘innovation’ at its finest!
aesthelete@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And apparently US politics listens exclusively to people with more money than the average country’s budget.
…even if they (the government that is) gave him a large portion of that money.
TwoGems@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Who knew Elon had no engineering degree in reality?
isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
He did it on purpose to cuck California out of public transit so he can sell more Teslas, said it himself
foobaz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Boo. All I want is fast as fuck transport. I don’t see why maglev trains in a vacuum are so difficult
exu@feditown.com 4 months ago
Maintaining a vacuum over long distances is really fucking hard.
You’d be better served utilising existing rail infrastructure and improving that to make high speed trains possible.LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Whole purposes of hyperloop was to derail any constructive debate on existing rail network. Pun intended. I’d say hyperloop was quite successful.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Small vaccum then. They managed to build a tunnel between France and England. Put people on the moon. Can do a lot
314xel@lemmy.world 4 months ago
😂 That’s what Muskrat wanted you to believe. Engineers and people with more than 2 neuron cells have debunked the Hyperloop idea for years. Here’s one of them from 7 years ago.
ours@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And even before that the Swiss seriously studied the possiblity and gave up.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 4 months ago
So Japan has had maglev since the 90s. Explain?
chitak166@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t see why maglev trains in a vacuum are so difficult
Thunderf00t has many videos on the subject. I recommend checking them out. He’s been calling out musk’s bullshit for years, and is right every time.
r00ty@kbin.life 4 months ago
But! It's just like an air hockey table! I swear it's not difficult! :P
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Most engineering channels on YouTube. Guess thunderf00t has made progress recovering his public image.
meeeeetch@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Because maintaining a train length vacuum is really difficult and doesn’t really provide that big of a benefit.
Atmospheric rail has been attempted with varying degrees of success (but never to a ‘replaces traditional rail’ degree) for 200 years.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Not mentioning that making tunnels for rail in rocky areas is already hard. And modern railways are not something simple or easy. That’s without space tech from futurism-themed magazines for teenage boys.
A normal (not high-speed, not something like TGV) railway line getting you from A city to B city 20% slower than a car, departing 5-6 times a day evenly distributed, is already an enormous dramatic change.
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 4 months ago
ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I think you were being sarcastic with that last line and nobody caught it. Sorry mate.
Huschke@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Read the rest of their posts. It doesn’t seem like they’re being sarcastic.
TheBat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Do you also believe the Moon is made from cheese?
witheyeandclaw@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I want to believe.
tostiman@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Don’t bother asking here, people on Lemmy blindly hate anything that has anything to do with Musk
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There’s a whole lot to not like though. Are you saying people aren’t justified?
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
I don’t see why maglev trains in a vacuum are so difficult
Then make it.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If only I could. My life’s goal is that. To build what nobody else will. Unfortunately I must acquire great wealth in order to do that. Proving particular difficult. Still have some years left.
Then I can implement my manifesto
DuckOverload@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Silly question: could they evolve the infrastructure to an actual transit system?
dai@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Me waiting for solar underground highways.
Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world 4 months ago
SOLAR FREAKING ROADWAYS
Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I had more faith in solar frickin highways and that was already 0.
Snapz@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It was always a grift. Go watch thunderfoot on YouTube
moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Technosolutionism will always be a failure. It failed in the past, it fails and will fail even for the climate change.
TheDeepState@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If only we could fly like birds from LA to Vegas.
Lophostemon@aussie.zone 4 months ago
Looks like a pretty crap ‘loop’. It’s a straight line 100 feet long. It doesn’t even go anywhere. Of course it’s a failure.
Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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?
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No, this was the point. He set mass transit back by at least a decade with his ridiculous projects.
chitak166@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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~.
NevermindNoMind@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Richard Branson hates public transit? Cause it’s his company that shut down, Virgin Hyperloop One.
rwhitisissle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No one reads the article, my guy. Everyone just assumes its Musk’s imbecilic project, when in reality its Branson’s imbecilic project.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Isn’t hyperloop like the opposite kind of transit to your typical public transit of the type he hates? Like, the only thing it can really compete with is airlines for long distance rapid transit.