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The Hyperloop was always a scam (www.disconnect.blog)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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It's time to be honest about Musk's vacuum tube to nowhere

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[โ€“] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

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.