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The hyperloop is odd actually. Musk didn't actually want to do it, he just tweeted out some random thing as a reaction to the price of California's high speed rail proposal, but at that point his fanbase was used to him just doing crazy things so they piled on him. That's why he set up that competition, to see if it was viable.
Source: his biography
Besides, that it doesn't matter if musk just claims something, anyone can claim something. Anything he's gotten behind has succeeded.
It's easy to succeed when DARPA's taxpayer money is funding everything. Tesla would have gone bankrupt if not for taxpayer dollar keeping it afloat.
Er, well he did still succeed though and accomplish something existing car companies with billions and billions could or would not. Also, this is besides the point.
He failed miserably. Pending bankruptcy is not success. DARPA succeeded by funding him until he got a product that could make money. DARPA is the U.S. government. It's me and other taxpayers. All the money he makes now is because the government spent money cushioning his fall so that he could survive. He's just a face propped up to represent American technology.
I'm not sure what you mean, tesla is not pending bankruptcy.
They were DARPA bailed them out with taxpayer money.