@jmaris
VdL really has a liking for wasting EU resources on bs tech promises, when the money would so be needed for tech that would actually work.
Also thinking of the #Thorn subsidy programme #ChatControl here.

Like, if trains don't sound politically appealing enough, take a fraction of the money that would be wasted on #hyperloop and use it for a PR campaign about how great investments into trains and railways would be and invest the rest to make it work. Would still be so much more helpful.