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@brenttoderian.bsky.social

“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even tho he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — @parismarx.com And he’s kept getting SO MUCH worse since then.

gizmodo.comSilicon Valley's Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable FailureThe titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation.

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kunzea.bsky.social

@kunzea.bsky.social

such an anti-public interest person, what a waste of a clever human

🔏 Matthias Wiesmann

@thias.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

@brenttoderian.bsky.social Hyperloop was just another instance of the the gadgetbahn pattern. US society wanted it to be true, because the alternative would be to accept the idea that the US is not number one and needs to learn from foreigners, a good chunk of the problems of the California High […]

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Cycling Commuter

@cycling-commuter.bsky.social

Yes high speed rail inside elevated tubes addresses multiple issues including blind, deaf or drunk pedestrians, pets, or wildlife plus cost of undergrounding large tubes. Even 1500 pound moose get drunk by eating rotten apples. Small underground tubes are practical for many uses in urban areas.

Cycling Commuter

@cycling-commuter.bsky.social

Steel from unused gas & oil pipelines can be recycled into elevated tubes for high-speed intercity trains. When my uncle was a med student, he had a part-time job finding drunks passed out on railway tracks & dragging them to safety. Drunks were called rubby-dubs because they drank rubbing alcohol.