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The Hyperloop was always a scam (www.disconnect.blog)
submitted 11 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] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

california cities outside the bay are spread out as fuck and the infrastructure is planned around car ownership. it would be a very long time before people would start going carless.