The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.

Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit::The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.

  • Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2042·
    11 个月前

    So the guy who notoriously despises public transit failed to come through on his promise to revolutionize public transit?

    Wow.

    I mean, who could have seen that coming?

    • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1613·
      11 个月前

      No, this was the point. He set mass transit back by at least a decade with his ridiculous projects.

      • chitak166@lemmy.worldEnglish
        715·
        11 个月前

        Yeah, imagine if all the taxpayer money he got to build a useless tunnel in Vegas was spent on something, you know, useful.

        What’s sad is, we will never see musk supporters come out and admit they were wrong. They are all gung-ho before the money changes hands, then when the grift happens and we have nothing to show for it, they all disappear.

        • jonneEnglish
          30·
          11 个月前

          Hamas has built more tunnels than Musk. Let that sink in.

          • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
            13·
            11 个月前

            I’ve built more tunnels than his company.

            And most of those were just fucking around because I could, not even for a specific purpose.

            Lpt: don’t dig without telling someone exactly where you are,and without a noise maker.

          • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
            9·
            11 个月前

            Hamas is rather good at building tunnels in the hostile environment of sometimes being bombed. If they’d have funds and modern tech … ah, well, they’d embezzle the funds and use that tech for something destructive, but if they wouldn’t, they’d be great tunnel makers.

      • rwhitisissle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        131·
        11 个月前

        No one reads the article, my guy. Everyone just assumes it’s Musk’s imbecilic project, when in reality it’s Branson’s imbecilic project.

    • Lev_Astov@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 个月前

      Isn’t hyperloop like the opposite kind of transit to your typical public transit of the type he hates? Like, the only thing it can really compete with is airlines for long distance rapid transit.

  • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
    1731·
    11 个月前

    It was born to fail, because its porpoise was to delay and sabotage the California high speed train project.

        • june@lemmy.worldEnglish
          40·
          11 个月前

          Yea, it wasn’t an ocean of stupid so much as Elon dangling the idea of a better alternative like the esca of an angler fish with the intention to gobble up the plans for the train project.

          • Telstarado@lemmy.worldEnglish
            34·
            11 个月前

            A) I applaud you for your masterful continuation of the pelagic theme of this discussion about Elon porpoisely allowing this project to flounder into Davy Jone’s locker.

            B) TIL that an anglerfish lure is called an esca and that a sufficiently literate person can seamlessly weave such an unusual word into this net of fishy discourse… Bravo!

          • macrocephalic@lemmy.worldEnglish
            15·
            11 个月前

            It’s not even like trains are his white whale, he’s just trying to break any alternative to cars before they can catch on

          • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
            64·
            11 个月前

            “Better” he hyped up a stupid economically non viable shit so his car company can stay relevant

        • rwhitisissle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          11 个月前

          This isn’t Elon’s hyperloop. It’s a company called Hyperloop One, predominately funded by Richard Branson.

        • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
          211·
          11 个月前

          This gets misquoted all the time.

          The purpose wasn’t to delay the high speed rail, in favor of the hyperloop.

          It was to delay/stop the high speed rail for something better as he didn’t think the existing plan was high speed enough or would be cost effective and on time. Faster high speed trains were already being built and with all the delays this would (and has) faced, it’d be even further back by the time it was finished.

          The difference there is pretty important, unless you fall into the conspiracy camp of the intent was to delay it so he could sell more cars and he actually doesn’t want anything made.

          But the goal was to stop it so they’d make it better than planned, not make a hyperloop.

          Edit: and before people reply, it’s fast enough, it doesn’t need to be the best etc etc. That’s fine if that’s your stance. I’m just saying what was actually going on, and you don’t have to agree with him.

          • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            11 个月前

            Just because his lie was technically a slightly different one makes no matter, it was still a lie and it was still stupid that all those government regulators and legislators fell for it.

              • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
                21·
                11 个月前

                And you think Elon Musk, the man who owns a car making company, wasn’t trying to sell more cars?

                • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  21·
                  11 个月前

                  Well, one implies malice, and the other pushing for a better more futuristic future.

                  And he has a history of pushing for an idealistic futuristic future, with pushing spacex to figure out how to land rockets or how to make a profitable EV, so ya, I’m willing to say there’s a likely chance he was honest in thinking it was a bad idea and California, the home of silicon valley and advanced technology could maybe come up with something better.

                  But we’ll never really know.

  • chitak166@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1137·
    11 个月前

    Successful grift is successful!

    Congrats, dipshits of LA and Vegas! Can’t wait to see what dumb crap you waste your money on next!

    • banneryear1868@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      11 个月前

      How did calling him Elmo become a diss when Elmo is such an emotionally mature role model created for children to emulate.

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
    61·
    11 个月前

    I remember seeing all the big brain French train engineers blowing the fuck out of the Hyperloop back in the 2010s, matching up with my understanding of the technology and I guess that was the moment the Musk Hypnotism broke for me. We really don’t even need maglevs, we can still move fast on iron, maglevs are only proposed to improve density by speed.

    It was frustrating to see friends and cohorts think the hyperloop would solve a solved problem. And do it in a cost-efficient way. It didn’t do either.

    Touching grass is not enough, I want Elon Musk to get cancer in his dick and die

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      101·
      11 个月前

      For all of his fans, he also has a lot of anti-fans. I’m surprised none of them have thrown him out the window of the twitter HQ or whatever. I guess he’s paying his security team a lot.

      • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
        7·
        11 个月前
        1. Distance is a factor
        2. He knows he’s not liked, which is why he probably pays G4S or whatever a lot
        3. He can’t run forever at the rate Xitter is going. One of his backers is that Saudi prince that had the journalist chopped up.
        • Aleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          11 个月前

          I usually don’t wish violence on anyone, but I wouldn’t mind seeing Musk made into douchebag tartar.

    • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      11 个月前

      I mean all this money could have been used to create incentive to make high speed rail more widely available and cheaper and I am sure that would already be super beneficial for the world. Instead they had to trash all this money. I wonder why many think that humans are some form of special creatures that deserve to exist forever. If anything we will be lucky to exist for much longer.

    • S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      24·
      11 个月前

      I mostly agree with the statement but the Hyperloop wasn’t solving a solved problem. Isn’t mean to replace trains is meant to replace planes that rely on fossil fuels for international flights and even go faster than that. The basis of function is sound to my understanding but is probably too costly to implement mostly for economies in crisis, I never was sure if it was really as cost effective as they said it was.

        • Garbanzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          11 个月前

          Ok, sure, but what about hyperloop IN SPACE!

          I’ll be happy to discuss my brilliant new invention with anyone who still has money left over from this project.

          • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            11 个月前

            Sounds easy enough, create space elevators with stations at the top and then make the tubes meet in space. What could it cost like $10?

  • Red_October@lemmy.worldEnglish
    601·
    11 个月前

    No way, you mean this insane nonsense that was obviously never going to work isn’t going to work after all? Damn.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    591·
    11 个月前

    Its maddening, we have the real solution. Its not flashy magitech that will instantaneously move you while leaving your fecal matter behind. It is just fucking hi speed rail. Turns out, putting a bunch of people that all need to take a largely similar path on a high capacity, fast moving vehicle is just really efficient.

    This is like watching a children’s show where they pause before they give the answer, but instead of giving a logical answer they regurgitate nonsense.

    • oatscoop@midwest.socialEnglish
      71·
      11 个月前

      Next you’re going to tell me that that not only does humanity already have trains that can do 200mph (320 km/h): but they’re more reliable, safer, cheaper to build/operate, and can can carry a ton of people per trip.

      Psh, like that would ever work.

    • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      11 个月前

      If you’ve ever been to Japan, you can only roll your eyes if you read about how people can fall for that “hyperloop” scam. The Hyperloop concept is just unrealistic, dangerous and expensive. The Japanese high speed train system is very efficient and absolutely reliable. 🚅

  • Smacks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    441·
    11 个月前

    Invest in actual public transportation: I sleep

    Invest in an overly expensive alternative to trains: REAL SHIT

    • Tnaeriv@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      1·
      11 个月前

      No, it wasn’t. This shit has been common in sci-fi for decades. He just gave it a fancy name and pretended he came up with it.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    11 个月前

    It was so obvious that this wouldn’t work that even Elon Musk didn’t want to have anything to do with it besides posting his brainfart on the Internet for the whole world to smell.

    • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
      621·
      11 个月前

      He admitted on record that he only spouted that bullshit to counter a bid for high speed transit in California. He was never interested in the slightest to ever pursue that idea in good faith. It worked, the project was canned to invest in Hyperloop and now US transit will continue to be shit because one douche bag with more money than sense opened his pie hole. And apparently US politics listens exclusively to people with more money than the average country’s budget.

      • Aleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
        221·
        11 个月前

        So just a continuation of the motor vehicle industry sabotaging public transportation so people have to buy more vehicles.

        Capitalist ‘innovation’ at its finest!

      • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
        18·
        11 个月前

        And apparently US politics listens exclusively to people with more money than the average country’s budget.

        …even if they (the government that is) gave him a large portion of that money.