It really sucks to see just how much money and time was wasted on such a monumentally stupid idea. I just want to see a string of mea cuplas from all the government officials, venture capitalists, and others that were duped by this and set back the growth of high speed rail by half a decade.
One of its primary purposes was literally as a distraction to prevent investment in traditional transportation infrastructure like trains. When a car maker is suggesting some kind of strange new transportation technology, be skeptical always.
And it wasn’t entirely unsuccessful. Vegas got duped on it (plus boring company) pretty badly, for example. Idiot suckers. But it wasn’t successful enough for the auto mogul Elon Musk to continue throwing money at it I suppose.
Why would they apologize for doing what they were paid to do? The hyperloop’s entire purpose was to keep the personal automobile hopium alive for as long as possible. If anything they’re going to apologize to shareholders for not delaying sensible infrastructure investment further.
It really sucks to see just how much money and time was wasted on such a monumentally stupid idea. I just want to see a string of mea cuplas from all the government officials, venture capitalists, and others that were duped by this and set back the growth of high speed rail by half a decade.
Elmo regurgitated that hyperloop nonsense a full decade ago, in 2013.
One of its primary purposes was literally as a distraction to prevent investment in traditional transportation infrastructure like trains. When a car maker is suggesting some kind of strange new transportation technology, be skeptical always.
And it wasn’t entirely unsuccessful. Vegas got duped on it (plus boring company) pretty badly, for example. Idiot suckers. But it wasn’t successful enough for the auto mogul Elon Musk to continue throwing money at it I suppose.
Why would they apologize for doing what they were paid to do? The hyperloop’s entire purpose was to keep the personal automobile hopium alive for as long as possible. If anything they’re going to apologize to shareholders for not delaying sensible infrastructure investment further.
Especially since this was what was touted as the solution when spiking high speed rail in California… Drives me mad.