It’s time to be honest about Musk’s vacuum tube to nowhere
I fully believe the accusations that Musk only proposed the Hyperloop to derail the California High Speed Rail project because an actual high speed rail service poses a serious threat to his car sales. The entire point was to overpromise and deliver absolutely nothing while sucking funds away from projects that actually stand a chance of replacing cars.
i don’t think it would have done anything to his car sales. you still need a car everywhere in california outside maybe half the bay area
Good point, but in the long term, a successful large scale transit project can and will sway opinions and cause other transit projects to crop up nearby. In the mind of a car exec it’s probably best to nip it in the bud in case more people get a taste of what car-free ground transportation can do and start getting ideas about transit expansions in their cities, and it’s not like he’s shy about his vehemently anti-transit stance in general either.
california cities outside the bay are spread out as fuck and the infrastructure is planned around car ownership. it would be a very long time before people would start going carless.
But his car sales are shit. And compared to the sales of all the major manufacturing is a pitance. Not saying its not the reason he did it but he’s such a little wanna be fuck boy I couldn’t help butpoints out how shit he is. What a mammas boy the soon to be Enron is.
Yes, putting as much effort into actually making Tesla better would have paid off more in the short and long haul.
Now he’s a punchline instead.
Plain old subway does the job better, cheaper, and faster.
My imaginary train is even faster.
Literally a snail is faster by virtue of actually existing.
I have to admit I was kind of impressed seeing the way two scams worked together: the Hyperloop, and the Loop. People genuinely thought they were related projects because of the name and, I guess, the tunnels. So the Hyperloop made the Loop sound more exciting than it really was, and the Loop made it seem like there was progress towards the Hyperloop.
Of course, in reality, the Loop is just a shitty cab tunnel designed to financially and physically block local mass transit projects, while the Hyperloop is just bullshit vaporware designed to financially and politically block intercity mass transit projects.
As a Vegas dweller, I’m particularly pissed at this whole thing because we’re CONSTANTLY hearing “Well there’s lots of subterranean caves and stuff, so a subway or underground structures (away from the scorching heat) would be unfeasible.”
…but here we are with a stupid freaking Tesla-pipe that could have had rail cars…
Clearly the city planning here is just one big investor rug-pull on the residents. After this “Loop”, “The Sphere” and their compulsive need to put like 5 more mega stadiums in the middle of the city in the middle of the desert.
And all working-class residents get out of all this is clogged freeways and $300 nosebleed tickets from Ticketmaster.
Yeah. I also thought that the tunnels were too small for a subway (because one of The Boring Company’s “innovations” is to drive costs down by digging smaller, shittier, and more dangerous tunnels using existing technology). However, there are subways in London that have even slightly smaller tunnels. You could absolutely lay down some tracks in there and have a functional subway. Giving it to Tesla to run a taxi lane for who knows how long was just a choice.
Also, from what I found out, the Loop is going to continue to fuck over the residents, because the expansions are going to have WAY higher fares. I think right now, the Loop is $4.50 for a day pass. As a point of comparison, a New York subway ticket is $2.90, so one round trip would be more expensive than a day pass. That makes the Loop sound great! …until you realize the prices are kept artificially low to make it seem that way. Future plans for Loop service would cost upwards of $12 a ride outside of the convention center and resorts.
Also, as an aside, something I don’t think gets brought up enough is that the Loop proves that Tesla’s self-driving cars are a scam. Even on a close course, indoors, built to whatever specs Tesla could possibly want, the cars need human drivers.
Dunno, I think it’s an idea and definitely a good one but not all ideas need to be built right here, right now
The underlying idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain has been tried many times, but its simply too expensive and fragile for real-world use. A single earthquake can cripple it.
I feel like if the structure was above the earth, somewhere in the air between two points up in the sky it might be more interesting vs helicopters and airplanes but on earth, one big crack and it’s goners
The Simpsons did it first!
Musk is a scam artist, founder my fucking ass
Yes. Adam something pointed this out two years ago: https://youtu.be/CQJgFh_e01g
Folks be thinking air resistance doesnt exist
The idea isn’t crazy. Shithead Musk didn’t come up with the idea, it’s been floating around for a hundred years or more. It’s just society isn’t there yet, technology wise.
how long until the news gets out on the satellite scam
