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Wait, the US finally comes up with some new cool mass-transit technology and we're not even building it here? Shame.
Edit: clarified what "it" is.
Does anyone know why they are building it in a seemingly less populated/ prosperous province?
Since the capacity of a Hyperloop system is close to zero (less than 1000 passengers per hour, much less than a lane of highway and two orders of magnitude less than an ordinary railroad), it doesn't really matter where you put it.
Paywall work-around: https://t.co/jZyOpZbbtD
Whenever I hit a paywall from an HN link, I immediately go to the comments to see if somebody has linked to the full article. Thought I'd help folks out since nobody had done that for this article yet, but if I'm out of line I won't do it again.
Hacker News has assured me repeatedly that this is an imaginary technology that cannot possibly work, so I assume this must be fake news.
I think the criticism isn't that it couldn't possibly work, but rather that it was impractical and expensive. Basically, its the modern monorail.
The monorail at Disneyland works great and so does the one in Seattle.
Does anyone know why they are building it in a seemingly less populated/ prosperous province?
Looks like the eventual plan is to link the airport to a tourist spot and the city is just the first stop on the way through. Might also be cheaper/easier to do in a less populated area.
Hacker News has assured me repeatedly that this is an imaginary technology that cannot possibly work, so I assume this must be fake news.
Paywall work-around: https://t.co/jZyOpZbbtD
Completely serious question given the downvotes: Is this discouraged or banned on HN? Whenever I hit a paywall from an HN link, I immediately go to the comments to see if somebody has linked to the full article. Thought I'd help folks out since nobody had done that for this article yet, but if I'm out of line I won't do it again.
Wait, the US finally comes up with some new cool mass-transit technology and we're not even building it here? Shame.
We can't build any public infrastructure in the US anymore. Too complicated between environmental regs, NIMBYism, and corruption.
Wait, the US finally comes up with some new cool mass-transit technology and we're not even building it here? Shame.
We are building a new, cool mass-transit system here, there's going to be a small-bore tunnel with electric skates between downtown Chicago and the airport. Edit: clarified what "it" is.