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.
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.
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.
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.