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Comment by TehCorwiz

11 hours ago

Hey now. Huperliop was designed to scuttle California’s light rail project. Which it did. Mission accomplished.

I think you mean "California High-Speed Rail", not light rail.

Light rail, generally refers to urban rail, "trams".

California's light rail still exists, as does California High-Speed Rail, which is not light rail.

This is the funniest conspiracy theory.

  • It’s not really so much a conspiracy theory as a thing that he outright said.

    https://www.jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-...

    • He can take out a full page Wall Street Journal ad tomorrow that says “I created hyperloop to kill CA HSR” and it will have no effect on the fact that CA HSR’s failure is 100% the fault of CA’s own dysfunction.

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    • That link denies the conspiracy theory?

      > “Or did he just have an idea and blurt it out," I asked Vance. > "I'm 99.9-percent sure it's the latter," Vance tells me.

      Also that to scapegoat Musk for killing the California train when California was perfectly able to kill it itself:

      > Vance then brought up a valid point: "In all this time we've been talking about high-speed rail, there's still almost none that's built....

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