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Everything Hyperloop related is not happening.

maxlin 3y ago
Has Elon actually promised something concrete about this? Elon's not the first guy ever to hype the hyperloop idea. On its basis it is hard to think we won't this at some point as it promises essentially orbit-like capability on the surface, so everyone has the right to dream we'd get this sooner.
- clort 3y ago
  "Can you give an example of 1 thing Elon said" ..well known example is given.. "Has Elon actually promised something concrete about this?" you can see that those things are different.
  - maxlin 3y ago
    I think the reasonable limit is when something sounds like that he argues it is possible "soon" instead of not being thought about. Like, I don't think we'll have AGI or gene-modified catgirls in 10 years but those dont count as an answer to this. Hyperloop was always being to be extremely expensive and Elon's role on it was never but just try to be a catalyst for more innovation towards it. He used terms like "open-source idea" and did that student competition to try to kind of drive other people to grab the idea. Things like FSD are instead considered concrete and produced by his companies.
    - heavenlyblue 3y ago
      And FSD doesn't work, at least not in the way it was promised.
      - maxlin 3y ago
        Yeah well it will before 10 years and increases the value of even current cars
        martin8412 3y ago
        It will not.
        maxlin 3y ago
        Only if the world ends it won't. At that point Tesla will have licensed it to a ton of other manufacturers, possibly even reached a certified standard like they did with NACS so competition will be even more behind. Your kind of thinking would say that no one will ever need more than 840k of memory or that rifling will never take off
panick21_ 3y ago
Elon literally said that he didn't have time to work on it, he just liked the idea. What more can he do manage expectation? Like people don't listen and just assume because they get information from secondary "news" articles. Musk released a bluepaper and that pretty much it. SpaceX hosted a student competition also. Other companies failing doesnt reflect on Musk. I do think Hyperloop was a bad idea to be sure, but he very clearly stated he wasnt gone make it happen.

Has Elon actually promised something concrete about this? Elon's not the first guy ever to hype the hyperloop idea. On its basis it is hard to think we won't this at some point as it promises essentially orbit-like capability on the surface, so everyone has the right to dream we'd get this sooner.

clort 3y ago
"Can you give an example of 1 thing Elon said" ..well known example is given.. "Has Elon actually promised something concrete about this?" you can see that those things are different.
- maxlin 3y ago
  I think the reasonable limit is when something sounds like that he argues it is possible "soon" instead of not being thought about. Like, I don't think we'll have AGI or gene-modified catgirls in 10 years but those dont count as an answer to this. Hyperloop was always being to be extremely expensive and Elon's role on it was never but just try to be a catalyst for more innovation towards it. He used terms like "open-source idea" and did that student competition to try to kind of drive other people to grab the idea. Things like FSD are instead considered concrete and produced by his companies.
  - heavenlyblue 3y ago
    And FSD doesn't work, at least not in the way it was promised.
    - maxlin 3y ago
      Yeah well it will before 10 years and increases the value of even current cars
      - martin8412 3y ago
        It will not.
        maxlin 3y ago
        Only if the world ends it won't. At that point Tesla will have licensed it to a ton of other manufacturers, possibly even reached a certified standard like they did with NACS so competition will be even more behind. Your kind of thinking would say that no one will ever need more than 840k of memory or that rifling will never take off

panick21_ 3y ago

Elon literally said that he didn't have time to work on it, he just liked the idea. What more can he do manage expectation? Like people don't listen and just assume because they get information from secondary "news" articles. Musk released a bluepaper and that pretty much it. SpaceX hosted a student competition also. Other companies failing doesnt reflect on Musk. I do think Hyperloop was a bad idea to be sure, but he very clearly stated he wasnt gone make it happen.