California high speed rail is still being built. Hyperloop didn't have any impact beyond getting some people to think, "Why is this so expensive?" The CA HSR p

California high speed rail is still being built. Hyperloop didn't have any impact beyond getting some people to think, "Why is this so expensive?" The CA HSR project was started in 2008, when voters passed Proposition 1A to provide $10 billion to fund high speed rail between SF and LA with a maximum travel time of 2 hours and 40 minutes. Initial estimates were that trains would be running by 2022 with the project completed by 2029 at a cost of $33 billion.[1] Construction started in 2015. Now the official projection is to have trains running between SF & LA in 2033 at a cost around $100 billion, though in reality the two cities will likely never be connected.[2] High speed rail doesn't make much sense in most of the US. The country is so big that most routes would take significantly longer than aircraft, even counting the extra time spent in security and traveling to/from the airport. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_California_High-Speed_Rail#Construction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_California_High-Spe... 2. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/29/california-high-speed-rail-bullet-train https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/29/california-h...