KAERO:
2013:
Musk proceeded to explain that while the California high-speed rail project, which is projected to cost over $60 billion once completed, promised to send passengers from L.A. to San Francisco in two hours and 38 minutes, he figured out that he could build a Hyperloop that would make the same trip in just 35 minutes and would cost only about $6 billion. (
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tzn. kdyz uz se lidi smirili s tim, ze kvalitni reseni neco stoji a byli ochotni diskutovat o realizaci, tak jim do toho hodil vidle, kdyz v ramci PR stuntu/hype projektu rekl, ze je to cely predrazeny a misto toho muzou pouzit levnejsi reseni, ktery ale neexistovalo ani jako prototyp natoz funkcni produkcni kus, ktery by se mohl zacit realizovat misto vlaku + nikdo neplanoval to reseni ani vyvinout. max. vytahnout prachy z venture kapitalistu
soucasti pointy autora potom imho je, ze doslo k efektni sabotazi reseni hromadne dopravy (castecny poslapani myslenky vlaku pred verejnosti => mensi ochota jit do takovyho projektu), coz se vyrobcum aut (zvlast v US) obecne hodi