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Re:Tesla's market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the ... by pmulard on Sunday December 13, 2020 @09:49PM (#25412989)
All signs point to SpaceX and his mission to Mars.
Re:Tesla's market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the ... by gxon on Monday December 14, 2020 @01:32AM (#25414186)
Luckily, it seems like he's mostly abandoned the spectacularly stupid hyperloop idea.

More tunnels would be cool, but I find it hard to believe there's really that much room for improvement over established companies.

Re:Tesla's market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the ... by aembleton on Monday December 14, 2020 @06:46AM (#25415947)
Don't you the boring company?

I think the hyperloop is even more ludicrous given the technological problems involved in vacuum tubes. But I think Elon realises that which is why all he did is write a memo on it rather than create a company around it.

Re:Tesla's market cap now accounts for roughly 1/3rd of the ... by gxon on Monday December 14, 2020 @01:24PM (#25421138)
Yeah, I was referring to the hyperloop and the boring company as separate things.

I feel like the Boring company is what he settled on once it was made clear to him how monumentally stupid hundreds or thousands of miles of near vacuum tube would be in practice. Even if you could actually build a working prototype, it's hyper fragile and will just never be economically viable compared to other solutions.