• TheSlad@sh.itjust.works
    70·
    4 months ago

    Elon has all but admitted that the hyperloop was just a distraction to derail California’s public rail plans, and now that that ship has sailed he doesnt give a shit about hyperloop anymore. The Hyperloop concept is literally just a tool that Elon uses to prevent development of public transport in California so that people will buy more teslas instead.

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
      16·
      4 months ago

      The Hyperloop seemed impossible form the get go. It had so many issues that are easily solved by… Not putting people in vacuum tubes

      • TheSlad@sh.itjust.works
        14·
        4 months ago

        Here let me try to solve all of it’s issues:

        1. Get rid of the vacuum idea to reduce complexity and points of failure.

        2. Move track above ground to reduce manufacture/maintenance costs.

        3. Make the “pods” longer and chain multiple pods together to increase efficiency.

        Wait a minute… 🤔 🚉

        • boonhet@lemm.ee
          1·
          4 months ago

          Nah, we can’t have that, it’s boring and works. We need exciting and impossible

    • Skvlp@lemm.ee
      15·
      4 months ago

      A major flaw in our societies is that we allow jackasses like that to come into positions like the one Musk has. Fuck Phony Stark!

      • TheSlad@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        4 months ago

        Literally all I want is for my government to manage capitalism instead of capitalism managing my government.

        I am certain that Elon will try to co-opt Trump’s cult following and be his political successor when Trump finally kicks the bucket, and that legitimately terrifies me. Elon will run for pres in the next 20 years I’d bet on it.