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Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit (www.bloomberg.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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

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[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 65 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

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.network 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.ml 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Distance is a factor
He knows he's not liked, which is why he probably pays G4S or whatever a lot
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.world 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait, touching grass? I don't get it...?

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a recent, overused phrase meaning "go outside" (and not be online).

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

O...utside?

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I tried opening windows, but I just got a blue screen, so I don't get it either.

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maintaining that much vacuum was never realistic.

[–] Garbanzo@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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.