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> Its from communications with his biographer You don't have to dig that deep. Musk mentioned his inspiration was the (most expensive per mile and slowest in t
by schiffern 4y ago
> Its from communications with his biographer
You don't have to dig that deep. Musk mentioned his inspiration was the (most expensive per mile and slowest in the world) California HSR in... his very first interview after publishing the whitepaper.[1]
He also mentioned it in the whitepaper (third paragraph).[2]
Musk was completely up-front with his disdain for that boondoggle. Can we not pretend like this was some deeply buried secret that had to 'leak' out?
[1] https://archive.ph/eThag https://archive.ph/eThag
[2] https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/hyperloop-alpha.pdf https://www.tesla.com/sites/default/files/blog_images/hyperl...
- dragonwriter 4y ago> You don't have to dig that deep. Musk mentioned his inspiration was the (most expensive per mile and slowest in the world) California HSR in... his very first interview after publishing the whitepaper. That it was proposed as an alternatige to CA HSR wasn’t the point, that it was proposed only to derail with no intent to build even if successful in derailing HSR was. (That it was decidedly nonserious in substance as a proposal, aside from questions of intent or technical practicality, deriving most of its cost savings by fantastic assumptions about land acquisition costs and locating its terminals far from the population centers it would notionally serve is also worth keeping in mind.)