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I have to give Elon Musk credit - the average person would be hard-pressed to come up with even a single laughably impractical mode of transportation, but he's

• TillE 9y ago
  Hyperloop looks insanely good in comparison. Like ideally it's just an upgrade on trains. This is some bizarre daydream.
  • droopyEyelids 9y ago
    People said exactly the same thing about toilet paper when it was invented.
  • notahacker 9y ago
    On the other hand, investments in better boring technology produces a lot of valuable real world construction industry IP for pretty conventionally dull projects that happen to involve underground travel (as well as potentially being useful for his Mars and megacity dreams). Millions of people travel on underground railways and drive through hillsides every day. Whereas most innovations necessary to develop relatively-less-unsafe means of propel people at high speed through long distance above-ground vacuum tubes are kind of predicated on the assumption that people might actually travel in a way similar to his concept sketch. Ignoring the marketing video, it's easy to see why he's potentially going to spend more engineer time and money on the boring technology and schemes for building big swooping curvy tunnels through prime metropolitan real estate whilst being happy to "open-source" the idea of firing people through metal vacuum tubes for others to work on.
• wvenable 9y ago
  Actually he has 3... Rocketry is a pretty impractical mode of transportation as well.
  • baq 9y ago
    It's the only practical way to get to space and stay there...
• y_u_no_rust 9y ago
  gondolas and busses
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