{"id":179541,"date":"2018-01-07T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/07\/why-elon-musk-will-not-solve-our-mass-transit-problems\/"},"modified":"2018-01-07T20:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-08T01:40:00","slug":"why-elon-musk-will-not-solve-our-mass-transit-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/01\/07\/why-elon-musk-will-not-solve-our-mass-transit-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Elon Musk Will Not Solve Our Mass Transit Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Because he does not, in any way shape or form, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylab.com\/transportation\/2017\/12\/what-elon-musk-doesnt-get-about-urban-transit\/548843\/\">have even the vaguest idea of what mass transit is<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Like many tech entrepreneurs, Elon Musk is trying to reinvent public transit. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/elon-musk-awkward-dislike-mass-transit\/\">But his comments at an event last month<\/a>, as reported by Aarian Marshall in Wired, made many people wonder whether he understands the business he\u2019s trying to disrupt: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI think public transport is painful. It sucks. Why do you want to get on something with a lot of other people, that doesn\u2019t leave where you want it to leave, doesn\u2019t start where you want it to start, doesn\u2019t end where you want it to end? And it doesn\u2019t go all the time.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a pain in the ass,\u201d he continued. \u201cThat\u2019s why everyone doesn\u2019t like it. And there\u2019s like a bunch of random strangers, one of who might be a serial killer, OK, great. And so that\u2019s why people like individualized transport, that goes where you want, when you want.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Musk is a symptom, not a cause.&nbsp; You find that most &#8220;Great Thinkers&#8221; in mass transit are <b>PEOPLE WHO WOULD NEVER USE MASS TRANSIT<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Moses\">Robert Moses<\/a> all over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because he does not, in any way shape or form, have even the vaguest idea of what mass transit is: Like many tech entrepreneurs, Elon Musk is trying to reinvent public transit. But his comments at an event last month, as reported by Aarian Marshall in Wired, made many people wonder whether he understands the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[389,504,406,471],"class_list":["post-179541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-history","tag-philosophy","tag-stupid","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}