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> The hyperloop, a ridiculously bad alternative to a subway The idea was for the Hyperloop was to do the 400 miles straight shot from LA to San Francisco at sp
by donatj 4y ago
> The hyperloop, a ridiculously bad alternative to a subway
The idea was for the Hyperloop was to do the 400 miles straight shot from LA to San Francisco at speeds up to 300mph. I don't see how a subway could do anything comparable.
- anothernewdude 4y agoI agree with you, but I would add: I don't see how a hyperloop could do that either.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 4y agoGood point! My idea is to have people simply rocket launched via pods from LA to SF over the air about 200-300 meters off the ground on average. Sure, it’s unsafe, and probably has a ton of reasons that it won’t work. But isn’t it an innovative way to solve transportation problems that definitely isn’t a tactic intended to downplay public transit in CA so that my totally unrelated car business has less of a risk of succeeding?
- bagels 4y agoThe state can't even build a "high speed" (or as other countries might call it, regular speed) train track between those places.
- jcranmer 4y agoThe CAHSR plans were for ~350 km/h rail speed, which is basically the highest end of high-speed rail. It's the ~200 km/h speed of the NEC that is at best barely-high-speed rail.
- bagels 4y agoThe plans were for that. It's not built, and much of it, if built, is now not planned to support that speed.
- aeyes 4y agoIt's not 400 miles and not 300mph but the Hong Kong to Shenzhen XRL line is underground, traveling at up to 350kph. https://www.hyd.gov.hk/en/road_and_railway/railway_network/xrl/index.html https://www.hyd.gov.hk/en/road_and_railway/railway_network/x...