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Technological challenges aside, I just don't see large numbers of people willing to travel large distances without at least the option of looking out a real win
by ballenf 10y ago
Technological challenges aside, I just don't see large numbers of people willing to travel large distances without at least the option of looking out a real window. And the proposal to use video feeds on screens is just so incredibly bad: they'll break, degrade, or worse get hacked to roller coaster footage and everyone inside will start vomiting.
I like the idea of the hyperloop driving technological advances, but don't see the hyperloop itself as ever* happening.
* within the next 30 years.
- shostack 10y agoI didn't think large numbers of people would suffer increasingly shrinking seat sizes, switching previously free amenities to paid (or just removing them), getting molested at security, etc. all to travel somewhere for relatively little money, but here we are with our modern airline industry. If little have their phones and signal they will be just fine.
- ballenf 10y agoIt would be the first mass transit system without windows. My point is simply that solving the hard vacuum chamber safety problems might be easy compared to fixing psychology. Early research on airplanes and windows ran into the same issue. Nearly every row has a window to themselves despite the incredible added cost and weight to planes.