He released a Bluepaper and said, 'I like this idea but I'm not gone work on it as a product'. How is that a failure?
Hyperloop isn't a great idea, I don't think, but calling it failure is kind of dumb.
Hyperloop isn't a great idea, I don't think, but calling it failure is kind of dumb.
Should every concept vehicle of every car company that didn't get built considered a failure? Every design study ever done by any engineering firm is a failure?
Something is a failure if you invest large amounts of money into something and get nothing out of it.
Maybe Hyperloop as a concept is a failure, that is correct. But for Musk, releasing a idea as a short paper and not perusing it beyond that isn't a relevant failure.
If he had invested 100M$ and then walked away, then I would consider it a real failure for him. As it stands, its a couple of wasted weekends doodling on project.
If that is the most people can come up with talking about failures, then its really not worth talking about.