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.

[–] 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

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