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He certainly popularised this idea.

babyrainbow 10y ago
Or was it the other way around. What did the Hyperloop thing do to his image? I think it elevated him to a visionary status in quite a short time. So in a way, it worked quite well for him, even if the idea itself ends up not working at all.
- onion2k 10y ago
  Hyperloop came after Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla and Solar City. Musk was already very well thought of before this idea was made public.
  - babyrainbow 10y ago
    You are missing the point. He was elevated to the status of a grand visionary from just an billionaire entrepreneur, with these big, grand "ideas"...
    - TeMPOraL 10y ago
      No, he's not missing the point. He was already elevated thanks to SpaceX and Tesla by the time he described Hyperloop.
      - babyrainbow 10y ago
        SpaceX and Tesla are not doing anything really new.. Not sure how it elevates him from yet another billionaire entrepreneur...
        nkoren 10y ago
        Landing the booster stage of rockets is really new. Building mass-market electric cars that are supported by continent-spanning fast-charging networks and can drive themselves is really new. And with that, I'll stop feeding the trolls.
        babyrainbow 10y ago
        >Landing the booster stage of rockets is really new.. Wait a minute. Was there any new, ground breaking tech involved in it. Will you call delivering pizzas using drones ground breaking, even if it was not done by anyone else before? >Building mass-market electric cars that are supported by continent-spanning fast-charging networks and can drive themselves is really new... Same thing...Wait a minute, can drive themselves? Ok. I am done here.
        TeMPOraL 10y ago
        You've missed the whole "first mass-market fully electric car that actually makes sense" thing and the whole "kicked the space industry in their lazy butts" thing, but the one thing that actually does the elevating is that he's not doing it for profit, but for forcing the electrification of transport and getting humans to Mars.

Or was it the other way around. What did the Hyperloop thing do to his image? I think it elevated him to a visionary status in quite a short time. So in a way, it worked quite well for him, even if the idea itself ends up not working at all.

onion2k 10y ago
Hyperloop came after Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla and Solar City. Musk was already very well thought of before this idea was made public.
- babyrainbow 10y ago
  You are missing the point. He was elevated to the status of a grand visionary from just an billionaire entrepreneur, with these big, grand "ideas"...
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    No, he's not missing the point. He was already elevated thanks to SpaceX and Tesla by the time he described Hyperloop.
    - babyrainbow 10y ago
      SpaceX and Tesla are not doing anything really new.. Not sure how it elevates him from yet another billionaire entrepreneur...
      - nkoren 10y ago
        Landing the booster stage of rockets is really new. Building mass-market electric cars that are supported by continent-spanning fast-charging networks and can drive themselves is really new. And with that, I'll stop feeding the trolls.
        babyrainbow 10y ago
        >Landing the booster stage of rockets is really new.. Wait a minute. Was there any new, ground breaking tech involved in it. Will you call delivering pizzas using drones ground breaking, even if it was not done by anyone else before? >Building mass-market electric cars that are supported by continent-spanning fast-charging networks and can drive themselves is really new... Same thing...Wait a minute, can drive themselves? Ok. I am done here.
      - TeMPOraL 10y ago
        You've missed the whole "first mass-market fully electric car that actually makes sense" thing and the whole "kicked the space industry in their lazy butts" thing, but the one thing that actually does the elevating is that he's not doing it for profit, but for forcing the electrification of transport and getting humans to Mars.