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Don't forget the "Hyperloop" in Las Vegas, which is just a tunnel where Teslas are driving people around. IMO that's the stupidest and the least efficient use of this tunnel.
The cars are not even self-driving, and mind you this is a closed system and easier to implement self-driving. So far with his self-driving copium, and robo taxis bullshit.
That's more about Elon hating mass public transportation. Probably because it involves being close to poor people.
Don't forget the "Hyperloop" in Las Vegas, which is just a tunnel where Teslas are driving people around.
Isn't that The Loop, not a Hyperloop?
whatever it is, its a human barbecue waiting to happen with how tight and coffinlike the tunnel is from what i've seen of videos.
this is a closed system and easier to implement self-driving
Lol, they tried and it didn't work well, even in a closed system. There was a whistleblower among the drivers a while ago. They were officially in the cars just to keep an eye of things but in reality they had to take over constantly, and they all had contracts that tried to keep them from talking about it. Oh yeah and they got scripts they had to follow if passengers asked questions about Musk or the project. 😄
Edit: here's some articles:
Hyoerloop is not a scam just because The con man proposed it with the intent of stopping a high speed rail road project.
It's a scam also because:
The moment he proposed it, but was not interested in implementing it and let others use that idea, was a clear sign that he himself didn't believe in it.
That's an interesting concept. After the shit he's pulled with twitter, and in general, I now wonder if he was genuinely dumb enough to believe the hyperloop would be economically viable, and deferred because he had 5 young projects in flight... but he's also too egomaniacal to defer a project he believed in, so maybe it was a scam from day one, because he is a con artist.
During the peak of his fame I always thought this was a money laundering scheme from Musk. Only recently I've learned about the (not so much) theory that it was all an effort to screw with high speed train.
Going to run a turbofan in a vacuum chamber for propulsion and use air bearings to float on the surface. Like any of it ever made sense from day one. Fever dreams of an idiot.
I fully believe the accusations that Musk only proposed the Hyperloop to derail the California High Speed Rail project because an actual high speed rail service poses a serious threat to his car sales. The entire point was to overpromise and deliver absolutely nothing while sucking funds away from projects that actually stand a chance of replacing cars.
i don't think it would have done anything to his car sales. you still need a car everywhere in california outside maybe half the bay area
Good point, but in the long term, a successful large scale transit project can and will sway opinions and cause other transit projects to crop up nearby. In the mind of a car exec it's probably best to nip it in the bud in case more people get a taste of what car-free ground transportation can do and start getting ideas about transit expansions in their cities, and it's not like he's shy about his vehemently anti-transit stance in general either.
Yes. Adam something pointed this out two years ago: https://youtu.be/CQJgFh_e01g
I remember when thunderf00t dunked on this idiocy like, 10 years ago or something.
Musk is a scam artist, founder my fucking ass
The hyperloop was my wake up call that he wasn't a good person, it felt like every reporter became dumb overnight to buy what he was saying.
Plain old subway does the job better, cheaper, and faster.
My imaginary train is even faster.
Literally a snail is faster by virtue of actually existing.
If you are ever in LA, you should take a drive around SpaceX campus and see the "Hyperloop prototype" they built outside(don't get out of the car, Hawthorne is a run down industrial zone and not the safest place)
There is nothing that shatters the illusion of Musk's genius faster than seeing that sad, short gas pipeline looking thing on an run down street next to their overflowing employee garage.
Street view link?
In other news, water was always fucking wet. World shocked.
The underlying idea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vactrain has been tried many times, but its simply too expensive and fragile for real-world use. A single earthquake can cripple it.
Important to say, tried many times AFTER being conceived over 100 years ago.
i mean news flash and shit, but you can't make a good product at this point under capitalism. there isn't a single product on the market, in any category, that is not a scam. Enshittification won capitalism and the game is over.
IDK man my toaster oven works pretty well
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I would go into such extremes. Just on top of my head Brother printers are nice, cheap, and do the job well.
I thought the initial scaled down tests showed it was a dumb idea from the start but the company ran for 5 years or more saying “we’re working on this idea that we’ve already proved is shit and won’t work.”
Now they’re telling us it doesn’t work
Thank you! This has not been said nearly enough.
It’s been said a lot. Since the first day it was proposed.
And fell on deaf years until now. Way too many local admins splurged millions for "developing" this lunacy.
The Simpsons did it first!
Thunderf00t
Folks be thinking air resistance doesnt exist
There wasn't going to be any air resistance. They were just going to build a vacuum chamber 1000 times larger than the biggest one ever engineered, then contain it in a thin metal tube snaking hundreds of miles across the heat of the California desert. So simple. /s
Good thing California is geological stable, otherwise it would never have worked.... /s
