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.

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@BrentToderian @parismarx Musk’s Hyperloop scam is an old school trick conceived by a Microsoft engineer in 1982. Vaporware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware His trashing of public transit is an even more vintage move from Robert Moses’ playbook https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/23/cars/elon-musk-robert-moses/index.html
Vaporware - Wikipedia

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