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What fraction of "conventional" public transport costs are labour? I think (if it gets built!) we'll see very few humans operating or maintaining the hyperloop
by dasmoth 13y ago
What fraction of "conventional" public transport costs are labour?
I think (if it gets built!) we'll see very few humans operating or maintaining the hyperloop.
- tptacek 13y agoI think we'll see more. Among other things, the Hyperloop plans are predicated on TSA-style security at the endpoints. That doesn't happen on conventional trains; there's security, but it's nothing like airport security. It's never getting built, though. An insurmountable advantage of HSR is that it can serve population centers along its route, which makes ROW acquisition feasible. I don't think the car company has much to do with things (you can make an argument that a better HSR infrastructure would help Tesla, not hurt it, by reducing its customers need for the long-haul drives that are the weak point of electric cars), but I do think the Hyperloop is best understood as a political maneuver to complicate CA HSR.