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What do you do when a terrorist places a derailing device [0] on a piece of rail track that will harm and potentially kill many people inside? [0]:https://en.w

• marvin 6y ago
  You never ever build railroads again, obviously, and deride everyone that plans building them.
• sudosysgen 6y ago
  Derailing a railroad is a complicated endeavor that will likely get detected and the train stopped, and even in the most catastrophic event only a very small fraction of the occupancy of one train will be killed. Whereas a catastrophic dépressurisation event on a hyperloop will assuredly kill everyone inside. The amount of energy stored in such a pressure differential is equivalent to many hundreds of tons of TNT. It's not comparable at all.
• nytgop77 6y ago
  Derailed train seems to injure most passangers, but kill only few of them [1] [2]. It would seem that hyperloop would be more similar to a plane - more deaths than injuries. Also damage to infrastructure, would be more than a few rails. (please educate me if I'm wrong) [1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derailment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Washington_train_derail... [2]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_accidents_(2010%E2%80%932019) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_accidents_(2010...
• liability 6y ago
  If you derailed a train, you'd lose what, tens of millions of dollars worth of locomotives, cars, and maybe a mile of track? When a hypertunnel explosively pressurizes, chances are you'd lose tens of billions of dollars of tube, plus anything that was anywhere in it.