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I fully believe the accusations that Musk only proposed the Hyperloop to derail the California High Speed Rail project because an actual high speed rail service poses a serious threat to his car sales. The entire point was to overpromise and deliver absolutely nothing while sucking funds away from projects that actually stand a chance of replacing cars.
i don't think it would have done anything to his car sales. you still need a car everywhere in california outside maybe half the bay area
Good point, but in the long term, a successful large scale transit project can and will sway opinions and cause other transit projects to crop up nearby. In the mind of a car exec it's probably best to nip it in the bud in case more people get a taste of what car-free ground transportation can do and start getting ideas about transit expansions in their cities, and it's not like he's shy about his vehemently anti-transit stance in general either.
california cities outside the bay are spread out as fuck and the infrastructure is planned around car ownership. it would be a very long time before people would start going carless.
But his car sales are shit. And compared to the sales of all the major manufacturing is a pitance. Not saying its not the reason he did it but he's such a little wanna be fuck boy I couldn't help butpoints out how shit he is. What a mammas boy the soon to be Enron is.
Yes, putting as much effort into actually making Tesla better would have paid off more in the short and long haul.
Now he's a punchline instead.