Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit::The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.
So the guy who notoriously despises public transit failed to come through on his promise to revolutionize public transit?
Wow.
I mean, who could have seen that coming?
No, this was the point. He set mass transit back by at least a decade with his ridiculous projects.
Yeah, imagine if all the taxpayer money he got to build a useless tunnel in Vegas was spent on something, you know, useful.
What’s sad is, we will never see musk supporters come out and admit they were wrong. They are all gung-ho before the money changes hands, then when the grift happens and we have nothing to show for it, they all disappear.
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Richard Branson hates public transit? Cause it’s his company that shut down, Virgin Hyperloop One.
No one reads the article, my guy. Everyone just assumes it’s Musk’s imbecilic project, when in reality it’s Branson’s imbecilic project.
Isn’t hyperloop like the opposite kind of transit to your typical public transit of the type he hates? Like, the only thing it can really compete with is airlines for long distance rapid transit.
Successful grift is successful!
Congrats, dipshits of LA and Vegas! Can’t wait to see what dumb crap you waste your money on next!
Monorail?
Vegas already has a poorly implemented monorail.
Fuck this grift and all other grifts by Elmo.
How did calling him Elmo become a diss when Elmo is such an emotionally mature role model created for children to emulate.
No way, you mean this insane nonsense that was obviously never going to work isn’t going to work after all? Damn.
Colour me shocked.
Its maddening, we have the real solution. Its not flashy magitech that will instantaneously move you while leaving your fecal matter behind. It is just fucking hi speed rail. Turns out, putting a bunch of people that all need to take a largely similar path on a high capacity, fast moving vehicle is just really efficient.
This is like watching a children’s show where they pause before they give the answer, but instead of giving a logical answer they regurgitate nonsense.
I remember seeing all the big brain French train engineers blowing the fuck out of the Hyperloop back in the 2010s, matching up with my understanding of the technology and I guess that was the moment the Musk Hypnotism broke for me. We really don’t even need maglevs, we can still move fast on iron, maglevs are only proposed to improve density by speed.
It was frustrating to see friends and cohorts think the hyperloop would solve a solved problem. And do it in a cost-efficient way. It didn’t do either.
Touching grass is not enough, I want Elon Musk to get cancer in his dick and die
I mean all this money could have been used to create incentive to make high speed rail more widely available and cheaper and I am sure that would already be super beneficial for the world. Instead they had to trash all this money. I wonder why many think that humans are some form of special creatures that deserve to exist forever. If anything we will be lucky to exist for much longer.
Wait, touching grass? I don’t get it…?
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I mostly agree with the statement but the Hyperloop wasn’t solving a solved problem. Isn’t mean to replace trains is meant to replace planes that rely on fossil fuels for international flights and even go faster than that. The basis of function is sound to my understanding but is probably too costly to implement mostly for economies in crisis, I never was sure if it was really as cost effective as they said it was.
Maintaining that much vacuum was never realistic.
Ok, sure, but what about hyperloop IN SPACE!
I’ll be happy to discuss my brilliant new invention with anyone who still has money left over from this project.
Metro systems still going since 1863
No way. Who could have seen that one coming?
I saw it not coming at Hyperloop speeds!
Invest in actual public transportation: I sleep
Invest in an overly expensive alternative to trains: REAL SHIT
Like all these fake trees or solar trees or carbon vacuums instead of just planting more trees.
Tech bros will call trains unviable and obsolete and then burn truckloads of money on shit like this
It was so obvious that this wouldn’t work that even Elon Musk didn’t want to have anything to do with it besides posting his brainfart on the Internet for the whole world to smell.
He admitted on record that he only spouted that bullshit to counter a bid for high speed transit in California. He was never interested in the slightest to ever pursue that idea in good faith. It worked, the project was canned to invest in Hyperloop and now US transit will continue to be shit because one douche bag with more money than sense opened his pie hole. And apparently US politics listens exclusively to people with more money than the average country’s budget.
And apparently US politics listens exclusively to people with more money than the average country’s budget.
…even if they (the government that is) gave him a large portion of that money.
So just a continuation of the motor vehicle industry sabotaging public transportation so people have to buy more vehicles.
Capitalist ‘innovation’ at its finest!
Who knew Elon had no engineering degree in reality?
I mean… it was elon’s idea after all.
how many miles of high speed rail has china built in that time?
Silly question: could they evolve the infrastructure to an actual transit system?
Me waiting for solar underground highways.
SOLAR FREAKING ROADWAYS
What infrastructure?
