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Well it has to beat a standard commuter car (~$45 one way@34mpg) by a significant margin to be useful for consumers. What about freight?
by nazgulnarsil 13y ago
Well it has to beat a standard commuter car (~$45 one way@34mpg) by a significant margin to be useful for consumers.
What about freight?
- greedo 13y agoTime is money too. The drive from SF to LA is about 5.5 hours (per Google Maps). 5.5 hours of stress and frustration, compared to 30-40 minutes of hyperloop...
- bobsil1 13y agoUp to 8 hours when there's construction on I-5, jams into your destination city, or when you're taking kids who need bathroom breaks.
- mikeyouse 13y agoJust as an anecdote.. We had some friends from Orange County come visit us in SF this past weekend. * OC -> SF -- Left at 3pm, took 9.5hrs to drive * SF -> OC -- Left at 9pm, took 7 hours to drive There is random night construction as well as detours and traffic to worry about on I-5. Half an hour would be a no-brainer, even if it only went so far as downtown LA.
- nazgulnarsil 13y agogood point. Also my estimate is the marginal cost for a car vs the ammortized total cost for the hyperloop.
- Florin_Andrei 13y ago> The drive from SF to LA is about 5.5 hours (per Google Maps). If I tried to do it in 5.5 hours in the real world, with traffic, I'm pretty sure I'd get arrested at some point.
- rdl 13y agoIt's kind of cool that Elon Musk is competing with himself here -- Hyperloop vs. a 3rd generation Tesla (which should be even cheaper than $45 one-way per car, including depreciation and electricity.) The real problem, even once you add self-driving cars, is I-5's limited capacity.