Poor Elon Musk . He might be a multi - billionaire who runs some of the world ’s most desirable companies , but he ’s also not averse to controversy .
That ’s on the button what he ’s incited these last few days , after twinge he had “ verbal government approving ” to build his Hyperloop idea on the east coast of the USA .
He say his newfangled tunneling company , The Boring Company , would build an underground burrow between New York , Philadelphia , Baltimore , and Washington DC for Hyperloop . New York to DC in 29 minutes would be possible with this arrangement , said Musk .
As a refresher , Hyperloop is an melodic theme to post rider - carrying pod through emptiness - suck tube at f number of up to 1,200 kilometers ( 750 miles ) per hour . Several companiesare now turn on this , including Musk ’s own SpaceX.
It ’s just that , well , no one is quite indisputable what he meant by his tweets . Various outlets have since chase up the official from each urban center , and none seem to have given Musk any form of agreement .
The Mayor of New York ’s press secretary on Twitter said this was “ news to City Hall ” , while transit authorities from New York , Washington and others said they ’d never heard of his program .
Mike Dunn , the deputy communications director for Philadelphia ’s mayor , toldJalopnikthat “ Elon Musk has had no contact with Philadelphia officials on this matter . ” Dunn added : “ We do not know what he means when he say he received ‘ verbal administration favourable reception . ’ ” Ouch .
Musk later allege he had verbal blessing at a “ Union spirit level ” , saying that this would get to the door to state and city discourse . That has n’t go out him completely free of literary criticism though , with several people pointing out that this annunciation on Twitter may have been a turn premature .
“ Bad intelligence , Elon , my friend : The White House does n’t have much power when it comes to rubber stamping gigantic , multi - state infrastructure projects,”WIREDnoted .
TheGuardianwas equally damning : “ Lest any billionaire require to brush up on civics 101 : the US system of rules of government does not operate on ‘ verbal government favorable reception , ’ ” they said .
His initial tweet has had more than 200,000 like , with the later clarification tweet garnering only a few thousand . Thus , they remark , Musk has succeed in drumming up excitement , with the actual particulars of what ’s going on lost by the wayside .
Musk has often used Twitter for promotion , but on this juncture he may have perhaps misled multitude a bit with that initial tweet . There ’s little doubt that Hyperloop is an exciting idea , but it might be best to temper expectation going forward .
