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Elon Musk personally stepped in to stall California’s high-speed rail plans in 2013, when he announced plans of his own to develop a “Hyperloop”—essentially a giant pneumatic tube like the one in your local bank drive-thru, but for zipping cars back and forth at high speeds. The Hyperloop was always a silly idea, and its few practical demonstrations looked awful. But it accomplished its actual goal, which was to delay any high-speed rail from being built for over a decade and keep people locked into the idea of car ownership as the dominant mode of transport.
✏️ Interesting. Hyperloop wasn’t a bid to put in his own method of rail.. he blocked high-speed rail to keep people locked in to car-ownership.
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