Elon has all but admitted that the hyperloop was just a distraction to derail California's public rail plans, and now that that ship has sailed he doesnt give a shit about hyperloop anymore. The Hyperloop concept is literally just a tool that Elon uses to prevent development of public transport in California so that people will buy more teslas instead.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Hyperloop seemed impossible form the get go. It had so many issues that are easily solved by... Not putting people in vacuum tubes

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Here let me try to solve all of it's issues:

Get rid of the vacuum idea to reduce complexity and points of failure.
Move track above ground to reduce manufacture/maintenance costs.
Make the "pods" longer and chain multiple pods together to increase efficiency.

Wait a minute... 🤔 🚉

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tech Bros invented the train.

[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

now go check out who's got the best rail services around the world. with the possible exception of japan, who's still got some measure of trouble with some of their private operators, nearly all of the rail operators who are consistently good are state owned.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Nah, we can't have that, it's boring and works. We need exciting and impossible

[–] skvlp@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A major flaw in our societies is that we allow jackasses like that to come into positions like the one Musk has. Fuck Phony Stark!

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Literally all I want is for my government to manage capitalism instead of capitalism managing my government.

I am certain that Elon will try to co-opt Trump's cult following and be his political successor when Trump finally kicks the bucket, and that legitimately terrifies me. Elon will run for pres in the next 20 years I'd bet on it.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Literally all I want is for my government to manage capitalism instead of capitalism managing my government.

But that's socialism

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Shhhh if you say it like that people's heads will explode

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's literally socialism with Chinese characteristics

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

China is more USA than USA.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

I dont know what you're trying to say.

[–] AnExerciseInFalling@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would love a source for this to pull up in future discussions

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 3 months ago

There's this but musk shills will discard it like anything that doesn't praise musk

https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/elon-musk-hyperloop-rail-17486877.php