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You need to actually look into this before coming up with these types of questions. You can mostly answer them with the internet... especially #3.
I think his response is fitting for a "former Amtrak executive" commenting on the Hyperloop.
As I was posting my reply to him, you beat me to the snark by seconds.
Finishing earlier than others is my forte.
If you'd have actually bothered to do ANY reading, you'd have noticed that the hyperloop is expected to travel along existing interstate highway corridors.
Which isn't exactly a given either. Many of these corridors are pretty full and rights of way can be expensive.
Elevated or buried has been floated
Which are both quite expensive.
In part, that's why he started this companyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company
But seriously, is Elon Musk just doing all of this to bilk venture investors out of their fortunes? Seriously, what major advances in building tunnels is this company actually going to accomplish?
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
The less flashy IP generated by his companies alone is worth what investors are paying. For every moonshot effort he's making there is small and unheralded innovations that are generated (even if the project/company is a failure) which have a myriad of applications that advance society in subtler ways. A lot of people don't realize that Musk leases out some of the technology to other companies to deploy in their products, including to Google.Similar concept, Milwaukee Tool is a rapidly growing company, and while their tools are good/popular they actually generate a lot of their revenue from leasing battery technology to their competitors because Milwaukee Tool got there first with a patent.But to be fair to your point, Musk is largely a salesman.
20/200 vision. Elon Musk might be nothing more than the Bob Lang of the next technological revolution. And that's a very good thing for the rest of us.
Should have seen it coming when Elon admitted the whole idea was an attempt to distract CA from moving forward with high speed rail