Taras Grescoe 🚇 on Nostr: Elon Musk doesn't want the people of #California to experience high-speed rail ...
Elon Musk doesn't want the people of #California to experience high-speed rail between SF and LA.
(He wants them stuck in his Teslas.)
Which is reason enough, in my opinion, to build it.
In Ashlee Vance's sycophantic 2015 biography, Musk admits hyperloop was all about getting California high-speed rail canceled:
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