“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

#cities #Hyperloop #ElonMusk #rail #cars
https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788

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

@BrentToderian @parismarx omfg he said the quiet bit out loud

I'd love to see Richard Branson's face now?