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It's a in a cylinder. On curves, the acceleration would tilt the cars sideways and acceleration would be, from the viewpoint of a rider, down towards the floor,
by batbomb 13y ago
It's a in a cylinder. On curves, the acceleration would tilt the cars sideways and acceleration would be, from the viewpoint of a rider, down towards the floor, like gravity (like when a plane banks). Unlike a banking plane, you would maintain vertical acceleration down and have even less weird accelerations than you would in that instance. Your head would experience less jerking around than you would in a fast car ride.
- tptacek 13y agoHere's a mathematician's skeptical take on this issue (just CMD-F "jerk").
- dojomouse 13y agoI think jerk could be kept much lower than in an aircraft though - in the hyperloop jerk would be basically 100% deterministic. You could design to keep it within reasonable limits. Sure, there might be minor imperfections in the tube surface, but there's suspension in the air skis to isolate that. I think the main thing needed to prevent motion sickness would be a virtual 'view' with horizon, which isn't hard to create.