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> Riding Hyperloop: once you enter the capsule, you can't even stand up from your seat. Stay put there, don't try anything for the next 30 minutes. I kinda wi

> Riding Hyperloop: once you enter the capsule, you can't even stand up from your seat. Stay put there, don't try anything for the next 30 minutes. I kinda wish we'd get off this bullshit argument for once. To even get to the HSR or Hyperloop, you're going to be sitting in at least 30 minutes of LA or SF traffic. In a small capsule. And I know your next comment. "You can pull over in a car!" Yeah, you don't live in LA then. Get stuck on any of the freeways and you're not pulling over and not getting out. Or did you really plan on taking a shit on the side of the freeway? Does everyone on HN get explosive projectile diarrhea every time they step outside? Maybe Musk is missing a market for you dysfunctional people.

acqq 13y ago
From the PDF: Picture: http://www.rtcc.org/files/2013/08/Hyperloop-passenger-capsule-version-cutaway-with-passengers-onboard.jpg http://www.rtcc.org/files/2013/08/Hyperloop-passenger-capsul... Description: The maximum width is 4.43 ft (1.35 m) and maximum height is 6.11 ft (1.10 m). With rounded corners, this is equivalent to a 15 ft2 (1.4 m2) frontal area, not including any propulsion or suspension components. Note "6.11" feet is in fact a typo, he meant at most 3.38 feet as the multiplication with 4.43 gives 15 of frontal area, and it fits with the metric units. It's very low, much less comfortable than sitting in the car. And you can be serviced in the car in the case of accident -- emergency cars reach the people in need. You practically can't interrupt the 30 minutes of supersonic ride in the capsule. Imagine that I offer you to enter the non-moving capsule and stay there, knowing that absolutely no matter what happens to you, it won't be opened for 30 minutes. Would you enter? Would you let your grandparent enter it? Your kid? And finally: http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2013/08/hyperloop http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2013/08/hyperloop
marze 13y ago
Nicely ranted.

acqq 13y ago

From the PDF: Picture: http://www.rtcc.org/files/2013/08/Hyperloop-passenger-capsule-version-cutaway-with-passengers-onboard.jpg http://www.rtcc.org/files/2013/08/Hyperloop-passenger-capsul... Description: The maximum width is 4.43 ft (1.35 m) and maximum height is 6.11 ft (1.10 m). With rounded corners, this is equivalent to a 15 ft2 (1.4 m2) frontal area, not including any propulsion or suspension components. Note "6.11" feet is in fact a typo, he meant at most 3.38 feet as the multiplication with 4.43 gives 15 of frontal area, and it fits with the metric units. It's very low, much less comfortable than sitting in the car. And you can be serviced in the car in the case of accident -- emergency cars reach the people in need. You practically can't interrupt the 30 minutes of supersonic ride in the capsule. Imagine that I offer you to enter the non-moving capsule and stay there, knowing that absolutely no matter what happens to you, it won't be opened for 30 minutes. Would you enter? Would you let your grandparent enter it? Your kid? And finally: http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2013/08/hyperloop http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2013/08/hyperloop

marze 13y ago

Nicely ranted.