[abvdasker]

At this point we all know Musk only did this as part of his general "hyperloop" boondoggle to kill California high speed rail. Why do we have to continue to pretend this was anything other than an idiotic PR stunt?

[qingcharles]

The man is worth $500Bn. If he actually wanted to build a Hyperloop from SF->LA he could have done it already.

[leetharris]

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[tomhow]

> Ah yes, the hyperloop is what killed California high speed rail. If only it weren't for those few tweets, it would be successful and done by now.

Please avoid sneery swipes like this on HN. The guidelines ask us to do better than this. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[abvdasker]

> If only it weren't for those few tweets, it would be successful and done by now.

Not what I said. I said he did it to try and kill high speed rail, not that he was solely responsible for its failure. And Musk did a whole lot more than tweet.

Just because you are ignorant of the significant evidence that this was (and remains) Musk's goal doesn't mean it isn't true. Ashlee Vance wrote about this way back in 2015: https://x.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990 . Just this year he used his involvement in DOGE to cut federal funding for what remains of the project: https://gizmodo.com/musks-doge-takes-aim-at-california-high-...

[terminalshort]

If he did it for that reason, which he didn't, we all owe him a big thank you for trying to stop that boondoggle before it started.

[preisschild]

Can you Musk defenders literally not read? That is not what he wrote...