No, this was the point. He set mass transit back by at least a decade with his ridiculous projects.

Richard Branson hates public transit? Cause it's his company that shut down, Virgin Hyperloop One.

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.

Yea, it was a very fishy initiative

Oh whale...

Musk came rushing in like he was selling a monorail.

Monorail?

Hydrogen cars and trains.

How did calling him Elmo become a diss when Elmo is such an emotionally mature role model created for children to emulate.

Elmo muskrat lmao

For all of his fans, he also has a lot of anti-fans. I'm surprised none of them have thrown him out the window of the twitter HQ or whatever. I guess he's paying his security team a lot.

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...?

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.

I'm impressed they could get their momentum going for so long, they were able to burn so much money and only now are investors pulling out? That was a serious hype train! Even if it was meant as lobby sponsoring against standard high speed rail, holy cow what a waste!

Colour me shocked.

Next you're going to tell me that that not only does humanity already have trains that can do 200mph (320 km/h): but they're more reliable, safer, cheaper to build/operate, and can can carry a ton of people per trip.

Psh, like that would ever work.

If you've ever been to Japan, you can only roll your eyes if you read about how people can fall for that "hyperloop" scam. The Hyperloop concept is just unrealistic, dangerous and expensive. The Japanese high speed train system is very efficient and absolutely reliable. 🚅

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

I saw it not coming at Hyperloop speeds!

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.

No, it wasn't. This shit has been common in sci-fi for decades. He just gave it a fancy name and pretended he came up with it.

He did it on purpose to cuck California out of public transit so he can sell more Teslas, said it himself

Me waiting for solar underground highways.

What infrastructure?

I'd say subways but I don't think the tunnels are big enough so they'd probably have to be re-bored larger and then re-reinforced

But probably a better use for the system than what they tried to do

Underground walkways?

Maintaining a vacuum over long distances is really fucking hard.
You'd be better served utilising existing rail infrastructure and improving that to make high speed trains possible.

😂 That's what Muskrat wanted you to believe. Engineers and people with more than 2 brain cells have debunked the Hyperloop idea for years. Here's one of them from 7 years ago.

Because maintaining a train length vacuum is really difficult and doesn't really provide that big of a benefit.

Atmospheric rail has been attempted with varying degrees of success (but never to a 'replaces traditional rail' degree) for 200 years.

I don’t see why maglev trains in a vacuum are so difficult

Thunderf00t has many videos on the subject. I recommend checking them out. He's been calling out musk's bullshit for years, and is right every time.

I think you were being sarcastic with that last line and nobody caught it. Sorry mate.

I don't see why maglev trains in a vacuum are so difficult

Then make it.

Don't bother asking here, people on Lemmy blindly hate anything that has anything to do with Musk