Not so friendly reminder that musk specifically came up with, and pushed, for hyperloop knowing that it would never be made, as an effort to stop the development of highspeed rail in America and shift all political discussions of it because “something better is around the corner”:
As I’ve written in my book, Musk admitted to his biographer Ashlee Vance that Hyperloop was all about trying to get legislators to cancel plans for high-speed rail in California—even though he had no plans to build it. Several years ago, Musk said that public transit was “a pain in the ass” where you were surrounded by strangers, including possible serial killers, to justify his opposition.
Also: 2024 update, the total length of China’s high-speed rail tracks has now reached well over 45,000 km, or 28,000 miles, by the end of 2023.
They are additionally five years ahead of schedule and expect to double the total number within ten years. And, before someone inevitably complains about “how expensive it is”, they are turning over a net-profit of over $600M USD a year.
California actually spent billions on a high speed rail without laying a single mile of track. I guess someone got rich from that.
You have to spend billions before laying track. That’s true of any high speed rail. They’ve done a lot of groundwork and built a lot of structures, and they should be laying some track relatively soon.
Wait, can I see a news report about this?
https://hsr.ca.gov/
I think this is the latest
Dude, they started that project ten years ago!
Yeah they’re really taking their time with it.
Actually now that I think about it, I think it’s been 19 years since I remember first hearing of the project and being excited about it.
they have to build all the structures and clear hundreds of miles of flat straight land to put the tracks on first
So you’d prefer a single mile of track? I mean, depending on where the track was, that might be pretty cool.
1 mile, straight up.
One, please.
Single or return?
Let me get back to you after November
So you mean… when September ends (and October and then yeah…)?
Specifically November 6th