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Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit
(www.bloomberg.com)
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this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2023
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Boo. All I want is fast as fuck transport. I don't see why maglev trains in a vacuum are so difficult
๐ That's what Muskrat wanted you to believe. Engineers and people with more than 2 brain cells have debunked the Hyperloop idea for years. Here's one of them from 7 years ago.
So Japan has had maglev since the 90s. Explain?
Their Maglevs are not Hyperloops...
Obviously
I'm aware. That wasn't the question
It is the answer to your question tho. Maglev is feasible, Hyperloop, not so much.
And even maglev is barely done because it's so expensive to build. Hyperloop is wrapping that same maglev train into a tube that should maintain a vacuum for kms on end, and pretty much every failure mode would end up being genuinely catastrophic.
Plus you would have to armor the whole thing and spend a bunch on security because one guy with a .50 rifle or some explosives could destroy a whole section and close the whole thing by punching one hole in it.
Haha, yeah. Remember the chaos when militia guys started shooting at transformers in substations? Every hick with a gun would be shooting at it just to shut it down.
They gave you the only answer your stupid question deserves.
Oh name calling. How very thoughtful of you.
Clearly very smert