Like John D Rockefeller convincing cities to kill their electric trolly system in favor of gas guzzling busses, which spent the next century belching leaded exhaust fumes into the air, essentially lead poisoning the entire American atmosphere and brain power.
You forgot about his hyperloop predictions. And his starship predictions
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Pretty much, yes. It was a stunt to siphon away money and political will from a high speed interurban rail.
And what? That’s it? Not coming back to the idea never again?
Like John D Rockefeller convincing cities to kill their electric trolly system in favor of gas guzzling busses, which spent the next century belching leaded exhaust fumes into the air, essentially lead poisoning the entire American atmosphere and brain power.
Yeah, he said (in 2016) that SpaceX would put people on Mars by 2025.
e: and yet, 💥