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The US already has established air travel. And mass transit via trains is not a technological problem, it is a political and a marketing problem. Hyperloop has
by Scene_Cast2 6y ago
The US already has established air travel. And mass transit via trains is not a technological problem, it is a political and a marketing problem. Hyperloop has the potential to solve the political and marketing problems.
- dgellow 6y agoHyperloop may solve political and marketing problems, but doesn’t solve the “cheap, safe, and fast transport problem” in any ways. That’s a completely impractical concept.
- jcranmer 6y agoHyperloop struggles mightily with the "mass" part of "mass transit." Its theoretical capacity is easily ⅒th of an equivalent rail line, and even then you're making some heroic assumptions about how frequently the "pods" can be safely dispatched.
- bluescrn 6y agoUntil the first 'hypercrash'
- Tiktaalik 6y agoHyperloop itself creates the political and marketing problem. Is a fantasy created by the billionaire owner of a car company that is a distraction from the actual totally viable solution of contemporary high speed rail.