Hyperloop didn't fail, it did exactly what Musk wanted. It killed the California high speed rail plan. At least for a few years.
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2023
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I don’t understand how this was not immediately obvious to everyone. Cult of personality I guess. It’s weird because back then I somewhat admired Elon but even so it was obvious that this idea was totally detached from reality.
The hypershit failed years ago, why do we care now?
Hyperloop One shut down recently
Got to wonder what kept it going so long.
On the plus side I can imagine many engineers and physics students probably learned quite a bit, and had some useful hands-on experience too
Wall St has fallen out of love with musky boi
This article was contemporaneously posted with the actual announcement, but I agree that I don’t know why it was posted here 6 years later.
There were plenty of voices saying this when Elon put out that whitepaper in 2013. We've known for a century that's its a dead end, we didn't need to spend a decade learning that again.
Elon didn’t start hyper loop because he thought it would be successful. He started it to kill California’s high speed rail plans.
https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1571628269555826688?lang=en