Elon Musk Calls Transit Expert 'An Idiot' and Says Public Transport 'Sucks'
fortune.com
fortune.com
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/941496174208466944
Elon: "This depressingly misleading & misanthropic article came from a very brief digression at an AI conf, not from an interview with Wired as is falsely implied. This is why I stopped following Wired long ago. There are way better tech pubs out there."
Wired: "To correct the record, the article does not imply Musk made these comments in a WIRED interview. It states: "he said onstage at a Tesla event on the sidelines of the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference in Long Beach, California, in response to an audience question""
Elon: "Good point. It’s just a really bad and fundamentally misleading article that doesn’t actually represent my point of view at all. Other publications referred to it as an “interview”."
I'm guessing he made a brief remark that was changed into an entire article. If it was an interview he could've explained exactly what he meant.
He further mentions: "that doesn’t actually represent my point of view at all"
So it's not just about not being an interview, it's also about the content of the article.
Wonder if the PR team will do damage control on this or if teh cult is self healing at this point.
(No, it's not exclusive to rich countries. Before Zurich I lived in Moscow and used public transit daily for two decades. Loved it too.)
And yes, it's not exclusive to rich countries. I can also think of Prague, which has magnificent public transport with a subway rolling in every 90 seconds in peak time.
Buses and trams are less frequent (especially on weekends) but get you to just about everywhere you want to go.
Waiting on a bus in the rain is a pretty terrible way to spend time. Transferring buses and turning a 45 minute drive into an hour and a half trip is miserable. Driving in stop and go traffic for 45 minutes is also a pretty terrible way to spend time. Having no transit would be even worse than either of these.
There really is no transit option in cities that doesn’t suck if you aren’t in easy walking distance of your destination (or maybe easy walking distance on each side of a direct bus/subway). Self-driving cars would be great, but only for those who can afford them. And they still have all the negative externalities of cars.
Oh and Trump...