The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. Elon Musk admitted it was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.
Elon Musk admitted
I’m not saying it isn’t true, but I’m not seeing any quote from him or link to an interview or anything. Just assertions from third parties of what his motives “seem” to be.
When you lie about shit like this, it undermines valid criticisms and makes anyone actually reading the original article question the trustworthiness of the source.
The Hyperloop was never meant to be built. It was all about fueling opposition to California’s high-speed rail project so it would get canceled.
That is a blurb that doesn’t resort to lies, and gets the same exact point across, without YOU looking like a liar.
You don’t need to lie about monsters to make them look bad. Just show facts about their monstrous actions.
If you’re spreading lies, regardless of intent, you’re part of the problem, not the solution.
I agree that the original source isn’t 100% unimpeachable, but I also wouldn’t call OP’s post a “lie.” A reporter included this assertion as fact in a biography of Musk based on extensive reporting. It’s always difficult to gauge the veracity of anonymous sources, but Vance seems very confident that the Hyperloop thing is true. Whether that’s based on a conversation with Musk himself or someone close to him, we don’t really know.
The quote from that biography is “It seemed that Musk…” - Using the phrase “Musk admitted” Is quite directly a lie.
The admission was never part of the original biography, nor the source article this is linking to. It was specifically added by the tooter, and was completely unnecessary.
Obviously, disgusting behavior without a shred of ethics. My only question is why or how it worked… Hyperloop is one of the absolute stupidest ideas I’ve ever heard of. It’s literally something I imagined when I was 6 years old. When I was going to sleep, I’d imagine that I could drop down under my bed into a tunnel with a wooden car that would take me to my friends’ houses. Just like Elron Musk, I never pondered safety, as in what would happen if my magic car broke down or started on fire.
My only question is why or how it worked…
Because “without a shred of ethics” describes most politicians too.
Most of the “work” of politics, at least once one is in office, is figuring out ways to justify doing whatever it is that one has been bribed to do.
So in this particular case, some number of politicians wre bribed to kill the high-speed rail project, so they needed some excuse to do it, then the hyperloop came along and gave them one.
It didn’t need to be compelling or even reasonable - it just needed to be sufficient. And it was.
Not surprising, elon is a pretty shitty person. Plus this would help tesla
