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As someone who gets claustrophobic on planes - I have to fight the panic every time I fly, the dread that fills me at the thought of a service/system malfunctio
by malbs 13y ago
As someone who gets claustrophobic on planes - I have to fight the panic every time I fly, the dread that fills me at the thought of a service/system malfunction, while halfway between LA and SF, what happens then?
I'm reminded of this water slide at the Gold Coast's Wet and Wild - you end up going upside down - but in order to attain the velocity required to make the loop, you need to be dropped from a particular height, only some people don't make it - so they have a single access point into the tube where people who haven't made it, can get out, but I'm sure it wouldn't be a fun experience, so I opted for not going on that slide, even though my kids were pleading with me to do it. No thanks.
The hyperloop looks amazing, but my heart rate went up reading that document, and it wasn't out of excitement
- redthrowaway 13y agoIf you can't stand being in an enclosed space like that, there's still the interstate. Is not meant to be everyone's ideal solution, it's meant to be a good solution for most people.
- jarek 13y agoGiven ADA, would it be even legal for the California government to build this instead of a classic HSR? It's not even about claustrophobics, people in wheelchairs couldn't be serviced at all and obese people would be trouble too.
- Turing_Machine 13y agoI don't see why they couldn't. You could just leave out one or two rows of seats and have plenty of room for a wheelchair, also extra luggage and package (if no wheelchair was onboard). You could have that in maybe one car out of five or ten, given that a new car arrives every thirty seconds.
- jarek 13y agoFrom the pictures it looks like able-bodied passengers don't sit upright, so a person in a wheelchair wouldn't fit. Perhaps they could be helped into a seat and then helped out, though. Serious question BTW, I'm not sure what exactly ADA mandates.
- tassl 13y agoI think it is a pretty fair question, even though I am not entirely sure of what is the definition of minority on this matter. What is the percentage of people that the system should take care of? There are always outliers for which this (or any) transportation will never be a possibility. Now, I am sure that some variations on the system (have one row with only one chair for obese or no chair to allow people with wheelchair) would increase the % of people that can use the hyperloop.