Elon has all but admitted that the hyperloop was just a distraction to derail California's public rail plans, and now that that ship has sailed he doesnt give a shit about hyperloop anymore. The Hyperloop concept is literally just a tool that Elon uses to prevent development of public transport in California so that people will buy more teslas instead.
The Hyperloop seemed impossible form the get go. It had so many issues that are easily solved by... Not putting people in vacuum tubes
Here let me try to solve all of it's issues:
Get rid of the vacuum idea to reduce complexity and points of failure.
Move track above ground to reduce manufacture/maintenance costs.
Make the "pods" longer and chain multiple pods together to increase efficiency.
Wait a minute... 🤔 🚉
A major flaw in our societies is that we allow jackasses like that to come into positions like the one Musk has. Fuck Phony Stark!
Literally all I want is for my government to manage capitalism instead of capitalism managing my government.
I am certain that Elon will try to co-opt Trump's cult following and be his political successor when Trump finally kicks the bucket, and that legitimately terrifies me. Elon will run for pres in the next 20 years I'd bet on it.
Literally all I want is for my government to manage capitalism instead of capitalism managing my government.
But that's socialism
Shhhh if you say it like that people's heads will explode
I would love a source for this to pull up in future discussions
There's this but musk shills will discard it like anything that doesn't praise musk
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/elon-musk-hyperloop-rail-17486877.php
I live in a national park and the Govt just awarded a contract to a private company to build a fiber line to the villages for high speed internet, and the company building the thing will own the network while the govt is stuck paying the bill forever. So stupid imho. No private company should own a network that exists entirely on federal land, and everyone depends on .
Wait, you live IN a national park?
God damn that sounds awesome. But yeah, the private fiber line sucks. Same happening in my country with most "last mile" connections belonging to exactly one private company. Whereas our neighbours to the south (Latvia) nationalized the entire network and everyone benefits from having competition (same company, Telia, has their prices like 80% lower there than here - claiming that Estonians don't care about price)
Its not stupid when its bribery
Are you really saying that Elon is the reason America doesn’t have high speed rail?
I'd say Elon is a symptom of an underlying problem which is relying on private capital to provide infrastructure.
he is indeed a part of a problem. Car manufacturers have been quite responsible for dismantling America's public transportation infrastructure.
He's a reason, but not a total one by any stretch
Ontario did the same thing