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Behind paywall, but I believe it has already been leaked that this was Elons way of sabotaging public infrastructure projects that he considered a danger to his

Behind paywall, but I believe it has already been leaked that this was Elons way of sabotaging public infrastructure projects that he considered a danger to his car company.

asdff 4y ago
Elon seems so paranoid. No potential Tesla customers are going to see the california high speed rail project and say that because of this project they are now out of the market for a Tesla which they will mainly be using for sub 20 minute trips around town.
- Herbstluft 4y ago
  > Elon seems so paranoid. Honestly, I would just call him malicious, not paranoid. He has made it clear that he hates public transport, as in the idea of using it (in that it is crowded and such...). This is of course funny because we all know that Musk has never in his life used a regular city Bus or even a train. I think it is safe to assume that he would do something like this not for monetary profit, but simply out of spite. We are talking about a guy that pays tens of thousands of dollars just for the attempt to discredit and harass a rescue diver he doesn't like... [1] [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-16/musk-reveals-detective-probed-man-who-sued-over-pedo-guy-tweet https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-16/musk-reve...
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  - steveridout 4y ago
    > we all know that Musk has never in his life used a regular city Bus or even a train I’m skeptical, and this CNBC article quotes Elon refuting it: > According to Musk, he does, in fact, "actually love trains, most subways and London buses." From https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/elon-musk-versus-twitter-on-the-topic-of-public-transportation.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/elon-musk-versus-twitter-on-...
    - netsharc 4y ago
      "Of course I love you baby, I would never cheat on you! Don't worry about that bill for a horse!"
panick21_ 4y ago
This has not been 'leaked', somebody wrote an opinion piece asserting it to be the case without any serious evidence.
- elabajaba 4y ago
  Elon told his biographer that he came up with hyperloop to kill plans for California high speed rail.
  - panick21_ 4y ago
    No he didn't. In fact you can read a whole article with that biographer where he disagrees with the article. What Elon actually said is that if California (in his opinion the most advanced place in the world) would invest so much in a system, it should be world leading and novel. I think Musk is wrong about that and Hyperloop isn't actually better then HSR but there is no reason to just make up a conspiracy.
- danso 4y ago
  It's an interpretation from this excerpt of his biography: https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990 https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990
  - panick21_ 4y ago
    The actual biographer disagrees with the opinion of that author. And being for cancellation (something money people want) of HSR is not the same 'hyperloop was made up as grift to get HSR canceled.
    - ykonstant 4y ago
      >And being for cancellation (something money people want) "ἡ γλῶττα λανθάνουσα τὰ ἀληθῆ λέγει" - Μένανδρος

Behind paywall, but I believe it has already been leaked that this was Elons way of sabotaging public infrastructure projects that he considered a danger to his car company.

asdff 4y ago

Elon seems so paranoid. No potential Tesla customers are going to see the california high speed rail project and say that because of this project they are now out of the market for a Tesla which they will mainly be using for sub 20 minute trips around town.

Herbstluft 4y ago
> Elon seems so paranoid. Honestly, I would just call him malicious, not paranoid. He has made it clear that he hates public transport, as in the idea of using it (in that it is crowded and such...). This is of course funny because we all know that Musk has never in his life used a regular city Bus or even a train. I think it is safe to assume that he would do something like this not for monetary profit, but simply out of spite. We are talking about a guy that pays tens of thousands of dollars just for the attempt to discredit and harass a rescue diver he doesn't like... [1] [1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-16/musk-reveals-detective-probed-man-who-sued-over-pedo-guy-tweet https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-16/musk-reve...
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- steveridout 4y ago
  > we all know that Musk has never in his life used a regular city Bus or even a train I’m skeptical, and this CNBC article quotes Elon refuting it: > According to Musk, he does, in fact, "actually love trains, most subways and London buses." From https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/elon-musk-versus-twitter-on-the-topic-of-public-transportation.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/21/elon-musk-versus-twitter-on-...
  - netsharc 4y ago
    "Of course I love you baby, I would never cheat on you! Don't worry about that bill for a horse!"

panick21_ 4y ago

This has not been 'leaked', somebody wrote an opinion piece asserting it to be the case without any serious evidence.

elabajaba 4y ago
Elon told his biographer that he came up with hyperloop to kill plans for California high speed rail.
- panick21_ 4y ago
  No he didn't. In fact you can read a whole article with that biographer where he disagrees with the article. What Elon actually said is that if California (in his opinion the most advanced place in the world) would invest so much in a system, it should be world leading and novel. I think Musk is wrong about that and Hyperloop isn't actually better then HSR but there is no reason to just make up a conspiracy.
danso 4y ago
It's an interpretation from this excerpt of his biography: https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990 https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1167410460125097990
- panick21_ 4y ago
  The actual biographer disagrees with the opinion of that author. And being for cancellation (something money people want) of HSR is not the same 'hyperloop was made up as grift to get HSR canceled.
  - ykonstant 4y ago
    >And being for cancellation (something money people want) "ἡ γλῶττα λανθάνουσα τὰ ἀληθῆ λέγει" - Μένανδρος