Brent ToderianDec 29, 2022

REMEMBER: “Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even tho he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx in #Gizmodo

https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788

#Hyperloop #ElonMusk #California #Rail #cars #cities #urbanism #transit #transportation

Silicon Valley's Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure

The titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation.

Gizmodo
Show threadPiet van den Bosch

@BrentToderian @parismarx
Please tell the Swiss,....

https://www.nzz.ch/mobilitaet/hyperloop-in-duebendorf-entstehen-grundlagen-fuer-den-durchbruch-ld.1716889

NZZ is THE paper there...

Nice discussion on NZZ LinkedInpage. Referred to Elite Projection by @humantransit

Hyperloop: In Dübendorf entstehen Grundlagen für den Durchbruch

Elon Musk wollte uns in kleinen Kapseln unterirdisch von Stadt zu Stadt schiessen. Er zog sich zurück, doch drei kleine Unternehmungen aus der Schweiz arbeiten an der konkreten Umsetzung der Vision.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Dec 29, 2022 at 9:01amWeb