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Has the Hyperloop made any significant progress recently? This article was pretty thin on the ground when it comes to substantiative info. Have any of the fata
by trome 10y ago
Has the Hyperloop made any significant progress recently? This article was pretty thin on the ground when it comes to substantiative info.
Have any of the fatal flaws been fixed (sub-1000 person per hour transport volume, rail can move 20k an hour, 1 lane road moves 2k per hour), or has Elon revised his inaccurate estimate, where he estimated SF to LA rail without actually crossing the bay into SF (or acquiring the right of way), or going into LA?
I recently drove through both cities, and where Elon proposed to end the alignment would make it absolutely useless for most potential users at peak hours, as its a 2+hr drive across LA and out of it to get there. Combined with where it terminates near SF, you could spend a few hours just commuting to & from it.
Ultimately, there isn't any way to get around the topography of either city whereby you can avoid the issues California's High Speed Rail has run into. Your gonna end up with lots of landowners, large and small, pissed off that your taking their parking space (which is on railroad property, and they've been using for a few years illicitly), changing the neighborhood, or doing anything at all. This is a costly process, but you either build it now and get the right of way, or you leave it to happen 40 years from now at a much higher cost.
- Shivetya 10y agoWell the end point issue is what most rail faces when used to move people. Even when you can have a destination point people want it may move with the times but you cannot just pick up the track. With regards to between city travel just get to the airport. You are bound to have plenty of parking, local mass transit, taxi services, and if necessary all the security is in place.
- trome 10y agoGetting to an Airport in LA is much easier than going up north to where the proposed Hyperloop alignment ends. Endpoint wise, you really aren't going to see much migration in terms of endpoints when it comes to rail, if anything the existing areas surrounding rail stations will clump and develop rapidly, as they have along the Coaster alignment in California, or along the MAX alignment in Portland.
- flexie 10y agoIsn't that part of the reason he is now drilling as well? I thought he had realised that getting roughly straight hyperloop tracks into city centers required tunnels.
- lorenzhs 10y agoOthers have speculated that the tunnelling may be in preparation for a Mars colony, where underground living spaces have the advantage that they're protected from radiation.
- wrsh07 10y agoUltimately, that seems to be the case for hyper loop technology, too. Any advancements we make at creating effective low-pressure transport will pay off once we're building transportation infrastructure on Mars.
- jacquesm 10y ago> Any advancements we make at creating effective low-pressure transport will pay off once we're building transportation infrastructure on Mars. You write that as if you are sure it will happen.
- ksec 10y agoHow does Tunnelling get protected from Earth Quake?
- wrsh07 10y agoI think you replied to the wrong comment, but I don't know. However, I don't think this is the first underground structure in an earthquake zone.
- m_mueller 10y agoYou should look into how Japanese cities developed after the introduction of high speed rail (shinkansen). Keywords: Shin-Yokohama, Shin-Osaka, Shin-Kobe. There's really nothing special here - it should just be clear that HSR is only part of the puzzle. A dense public transport network in the served cities is just as important if not more so, but in a healthy landscape it should come automatically with demand.
- nihonde 10y agoExcept instead of adopting Japan's proven policies and tech in this area, America has to reinvent the wheel. The whole blueprint is there in Japan, from the legal to the infrastructure to the ops. It's not some megalomaniac moonshot--it's running on time every day of the week from one end of Japan to the other.
- aanm1988 10y agoI'm sure if you explain to all the people who are angry at their parking spot being taken they will quietly agree and move aside.
- m_mueller 10y agoNot sure what you're saying. Parking spots being taken by public transport? Lack of parking spots is usually exactly what drives demand for more public transport.
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- smikhanov 10y ago> Has the Hyperloop made any significant progress recently? > Have any of the fatal flaws been fixed [...]? Has Elon revised his inaccurate estimate? No to all of the above. Prediction: there will be no functioning commercial installation of Hyperloop anywhere in the world within ten years from now. Or in a twenty.