Chris Nelder 🤘 on Nostr: The Hyperloop is dead, nine years and hundreds of millions of dollars after it ...
The Hyperloop is dead, nine years and hundreds of millions of dollars after it captured tons of media hype. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-21/hyperloop-one-to-shut-down-after-raising-millions-to-reinvent-transit
Not mentioned in that article: Musk admitted in 2019 that the Hyperloop was never a real project, and that the actual purpose of it was to distract funding and attention and get California’s high-speed rail canceled. Because THAT GUY is a DICK. (As anyone on Mastodon surely knows.) https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-california-high-spee-1849402460
Not mentioned in that article: Musk admitted in 2019 that the Hyperloop was never a real project, and that the actual purpose of it was to distract funding and attention and get California’s high-speed rail canceled. Because THAT GUY is a DICK. (As anyone on Mastodon surely knows.) https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-california-high-spee-1849402460