It’s rare for corporate brands to become so intertwined with everyday conversation that they become verbs. It’s rarer still for the owner of such a brand to announce plans to intentionally destroy it.
An estimated $4 to $20 billion in value, what is he thinking?
It’s largely been vaporware and reduced scope after promises made in an attempt to kill/distract local governments from investing in public transportation.
“I think public transport is painful. It sucks. Why do you want to get on something with a lot of other people, that doesn’t leave where you want it to leave, doesn’t start where you want it to start, doesn’t end where you want it to end? And it doesn’t go all the time.”
“It’s a pain in the ass,” he continued. “That’s why everyone doesn’t like it. And there’s like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer, OK, great. And so that’s why people like individualized transport, that goes where you want, when you want.”
It’s largely been vaporware and reduced scope after promises made in an attempt to kill/distract local governments from investing in public transportation.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-awkward-dislike-mass-transit/
And an NYT article on it: Opinion - Elon Musk Has Some Bad Ideas for Mass Transit. We Have Solutions.