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Automated delivery would be perfect within a city. Coast-to-coast suits planes. Distances of 50-300 miles with high-volume commercial package traffic could easi

Automated delivery would be perfect within a city. Coast-to-coast suits planes. Distances of 50-300 miles with high-volume commercial package traffic could easily benefit from something more like a subway than an airport experience, that doesn't bring the energy requirements of raising a 75-ton object tens of thousands of feet in minutes, or require an hour-long wait before it starts to move. You said "cargo doesn't care how fast it gets to the destination". Well, some cargo does. You also said the cargo system is larger than the passenger system. Well, that just means there's obviously demand and maybe Musk should have put that in his white paper. You're sure it'll never happen, I'm suggesting it might. Not that it will, just that you're a bit too confident in your position, considering it's a bet against out ability to innovate around problems.

protomyth 11y ago
> Distances of 50-300 miles Are the current domain of trucks that have a lot more access than any hyperloop is going to have. > You said "cargo doesn't care how fast it gets to the destination". Well, some cargo does. The speed difference between truck and a new hyperloop-based system is not going to be enough to justify the complications involved in including another element. Automation is going be the governing innovation, not a hyperloop. > You also said the cargo system is larger than the passenger system. Well, that just means there's obviously demand and maybe Musk should have put that in his white paper. Yes, its much bigger and the US has been optimizing for it for a long time. The demand is being met in a variety of ways with self-driving and drones being the next, more flexible step. I am pretty sure that's why its not in the white paper. > You're sure it'll never happen, I'm suggesting it might. Not that it will, just that you're a bit too confident in your position, considering it's a bet against out ability to innovate around problems. I not betting against innovation, I'm betting against the premise that we have a problem that further automation (e.g. self driving vehicles) and drones won't take care of. I see it very much like putting a generator on a bicycle to warm the handlebars[1] as opposed to just wearing gloves. 1) http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Complicator_0x27_s_Gloves http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Complicator_0x27_s_Glove...

protomyth 11y ago

> Distances of 50-300 miles Are the current domain of trucks that have a lot more access than any hyperloop is going to have. > You said "cargo doesn't care how fast it gets to the destination". Well, some cargo does. The speed difference between truck and a new hyperloop-based system is not going to be enough to justify the complications involved in including another element. Automation is going be the governing innovation, not a hyperloop. > You also said the cargo system is larger than the passenger system. Well, that just means there's obviously demand and maybe Musk should have put that in his white paper. Yes, its much bigger and the US has been optimizing for it for a long time. The demand is being met in a variety of ways with self-driving and drones being the next, more flexible step. I am pretty sure that's why its not in the white paper. > You're sure it'll never happen, I'm suggesting it might. Not that it will, just that you're a bit too confident in your position, considering it's a bet against out ability to innovate around problems. I not betting against innovation, I'm betting against the premise that we have a problem that further automation (e.g. self driving vehicles) and drones won't take care of. I see it very much like putting a generator on a bicycle to warm the handlebars[1] as opposed to just wearing gloves. 1) http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Complicator_0x27_s_Gloves http://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Complicator_0x27_s_Glove...