It's time to be honest about Musk's vacuum tube to nowhere

It’s time to be honest about Musk’s vacuum tube to nowhere

  • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
    34·
    11 months ago

    I fully believe the accusations that Musk only proposed the Hyperloop to derail the California High Speed Rail project because an actual high speed rail service poses a serious threat to his car sales. The entire point was to overpromise and deliver absolutely nothing while sucking funds away from projects that actually stand a chance of replacing cars.

    • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      i don’t think it would have done anything to his car sales. you still need a car everywhere in california outside maybe half the bay area

      • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        Good point, but in the long term, a successful large scale transit project can and will sway opinions and cause other transit projects to crop up nearby. In the mind of a car exec it’s probably best to nip it in the bud in case more people get a taste of what car-free ground transportation can do and start getting ideas about transit expansions in their cities, and it’s not like he’s shy about his vehemently anti-transit stance in general either.

        • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          california cities outside the bay are spread out as fuck and the infrastructure is planned around car ownership. it would be a very long time before people would start going carless.

    • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      But his car sales are shit. And compared to the sales of all the major manufacturing is a pitance. Not saying its not the reason he did it but he’s such a little wanna be fuck boy I couldn’t help butpoints out how shit he is. What a mammas boy the soon to be Enron is.