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I think this proves that the Hyperloop will be a complete economic failure. The most important line is missing from the list. * Los Angeles to San Francico an
by blackrock 9y ago
I think this proves that the Hyperloop will be a complete economic failure.
The most important line is missing from the list.
* Los Angeles to San Francico and San Jose
* Los Angeles to Las Vegas
Who really wants to take a Hyperloop from Houston to Dallas?
And even if you can, then you need to rent a car just to get around, or spend several hundred dollars on Uber/Lyft.
- jonlucc 9y agoOr, say, be a member of the Tesla auto-fleet. It's not like this thing is going to open next year, so transit issues should be considered for a few years from now at least. Also, people still fly those routes, so why not hyperloop instead?
- blackrock 9y agoYes, I agree. The robotic car fleet might actually be the game changer.
- bfuller 9y agoI am thinking you arent a texan. The 35 corridor is already full of people going from Houston to dallas. It would offer huge opportunities.
- chomp 9y agoThis is a very California-centric mindset. The Houston-Dallas commute is the largest growing in the nation [1]. [1] https://wagner.nyu.edu/files/rudincenter/supercommuter_report.pdf https://wagner.nyu.edu/files/rudincenter/supercommuter_repor...
- aaron-lebo 9y agoPeople really have no idea. 4 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area 7,233,323 6,426,214 +12.56% 5 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area 6,772,470 5,920,416 +14.39% Note, the areas above them top out at 3% growth. They could very easily be bigger than Chicago (3) in 15-20 years. and: 24 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area 2,429,609 2,142,508 +13.40% 31 Austin-Round Rock, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area 2,056,405 1,716,289 +19.82% There is a single area with growth rates above that preceding them in the list. One day Californians are gonna wake up and wonder how the hell everything moved to Texas. We'll take your industries, too. ;) Actually, it's a little unnerving. The area is getting busier and busier, you can't drive 10 minutes down the highway without seeing numerous new apartment. I hope our metros can deal with these pops, but we'll see. Austin has gotten the worst of it. Thankfully we've been good about investment in things such as light rail. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistical_Areas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistic...
- blackrock 9y agoI love the folks of Texas! But the fact remains.. it's pretty hot and humid over there. As expensive as California is, the weather here is pretty nice. No hurricanes, tornados, blizzards, or monsoons. You just have to survive the occasional earthquake once every few decades.
- aaron-lebo 9y agoCali weather definitely sounds like paradise. The truth is from September to May the weather is pretty nice. The nights get chilly and into the 60s, the highs are hardly ever above 90, and from November to March we get actual seasons and winter, without it getting so cold you want to die. It's a tradeoff. Plus if you don't merely adopt the humidity but are born into it, it really doesn't bother you much. Well, not sure how people live in Houston, but they do.
- bowmessage 9y ago> If it's not near me it's going to be a complete economic failure!
- ethnic_throw 9y ago> Who really wants to take a Hyperloop from Houston to Dallas? Presumably people living there, about 12 million of them. > And even if you can, then you need to rent a car just to get around, or spend several hundred dollars on Uber/Lyft. Are you joking or describing LA?
- blackrock 9y ago> And even if you can, then you need to rent a car just to get around, or spend several hundred dollars on Uber/Lyft. > Are you joking or describing LA? Los Angeles and Orange County is spread out over about 60 miles. Perhaps the average distance between 2 interesting neighborhoods, is about 20 miles, give or take. So you live in one neighborhood, but you have activities in another area. The cost of taking Uber for 20 miles, is about $30. So the roundtrip will cost $60. Add a few of these trips together, and you'll quickly hit a few hundred dollars. At that point, you might as well just rent a car.
- qq66 9y agoProfits are revenues minus costs. The costs of building a Hyperloop through Silicon Valley, the most expensive land in the United States, with probably tens of thousands of regulatory hurdles, is a lot lower than building through the middle of Texas or the middle of the desert.