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

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.