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There is literally no discussion on Hacker News about this article (so far) except the discussion about the toilet issue. Sigh.
by charlieflowers 13y ago
There is literally no discussion on Hacker News about this article (so far) except the discussion about the toilet issue.
Sigh.
- Anechoic 13y agoThe whole problem is this is a proposal. It's not even at the research stage. As such, all we can do is speculate to its advantages and/or disadvantages and a lot of questions go answered. If Musk (or anyone else) wants to address the criticism, that someone needs to build a demonstration systems. This was done for HSR (the US even as a test facility outside Pueblo Colorado for rail research) and MAglev (the now defunct TransRapid facility in Germany, plus a couple of Japanese facilities). Once something has been built that people can observe and ride, a lot of these questions will go away. For know, what else can we do?
- jared314 13y agoMusk said it himself on an earnings call: "I think I kind of shot myself by ever mentioning the hyper loop ... [I] obviously have to focus on core business and SpaceX business and that's more than enough."[0] He had to build Tesla to prove it would work. He had to build SpaceX to prove it would work. I think Musk knew, the moment he first mentioned it, that it would be nothing but endless pedantic discussions about trivialities. [0] http://www.earningsimpact.com/Transcript/82715/TSLA/Q2-2013-Earnings-Call/Page/6 http://www.earningsimpact.com/Transcript/82715/TSLA/Q2-2013-...
- protomyth 13y agoI find it a little odd that the toilet issue has more attention than the whole ADA compliance problems.