Con artist through and through. It'd be pathetic if it weren't destroying things.
Con artist through and through. It'd be pathetic if it weren't destroying things.
> So the Hyperloop, for example, he admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even though he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project and to get in the way of that actually succeeding.
In other words, Musk explicitly, consciously killed a high-speed rail project, and probably made off with some state of California funding in the process. When we wonder why we have lousy rail service in the United States compared to Europe for instance, it's partly explained by people like Elon Musk.