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Hyperloop One to shut down

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Re: Hyperloop One to shut down

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Post by dougmwne »

standardUser wrote: post #195

I think we should accept that, at least in the case of the US, most future transit infrastructure will be built on existing roads. Every other options is an order of magnitude more expensive. Plus, we have so many roads! If we didn't use them it the most inefficient way possible - cramming them full of giants cars for single people who also happen to be terrible pilots - we could get a ton of bandwidth out of them. A…

I’ve slowly lost my innocence when it comes to public transportation in the US. At this point I can see that 95% of the country is absolutely locked into low-density single occupancy transportation at least till we invent sky cars. We have trillions in sunk cost that covers nearly every road, every home and every business in America. We will never, ever be Europe.

Re: Hyperloop One to shut down

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Post by oceanplexian »

ghaff wrote: post #69
jgeada wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in the Northeast, what "decent rail system" are you talking about? Acela takes 3h44m from Boston to New York. Not much faster than the scheduled buses (4h15m) and comparable to driving the distance in your own car (3h55m if you stick to the speed limits)

I hate driving into Manhattan. I'd much rather take rail relative to the alternatives even if it takes longer and maybe costs more (especially leaving aside parking). And many others do as well even if it would be faster to drive. And generally Manhattan is pretty walkable once you're there.

You're missing the fine print. It's like $200 for a ticket if you want to take it at any reasonably competitive time, like a Friday at 5pm. It's basically a system for the 1% of wealthy super commuters.

Re: Hyperloop One to shut down

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Post by wilg »

ianburrell wrote: post #135
wnevets wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the plan was to put hyper loops in tunnels made by the boring company? There are too many failing pieces to keep track of.

Hyperloop and Boring Co are separate. Hyperloop was proposal for super-high-speed capsule in vacuum tube. Boring makes tunnels and they make "transit" tunnels. They want to make autonomous pods but so far they have only done Teslas. To make more confusing, Boring calls its cars in tunnels product Loop.

https://www.boringcompany.com/hyperloop

Re: Hyperloop One to shut down

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Post by [deleted] »

jeffbee wrote: post #95
wnevets wrote: post #47

What I never understood about that fiasco is that after it was decided to just throw some Teslas in a tunnel, why weren't they fully self driving? Isn't a one way tunnel without traffic or real world conditions like weather a perfect place to use it?

That's just how bad FSD is. It can't even cope with that.

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Re: Hyperloop One to shut down

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Post by wilg »

stuaxo wrote: post #6

It served its purpose of diverting attention (and so funding) from high speed rail, which is a threat to his business of selling cars. https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1571628269555826688?lan...

Except it did not divert attention or funding from high speed rail.

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Post by thechao »

mynameisnoone wrote: post #183
panick21_ wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you know, build like a normal as train along side the highway.

SSSH! Stop making sense doing things the easy, conventional, cost-efficient way. It must be completely new, expensive, unproven, and different!

I suggested this to my US Representative, but I'm pretty sure he's a Lich, so it didn't go anywhere. I think the tunnel thing might be more his style: dungeony.

Re: Hyperloop One to shut down

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Post by quink »

wilg wrote: post #203

Folks, Hyperloop One is a company unrelated to Elon Musk. Elon Musk is still working on a Hyperloop, via the Boring Company. https://www.boringcompany.com/hyperloop

Observe the phrase “still working on” doing an extraordinary amount of heavy lifting, certainly more than any Hyperloop ever did.

Re: Hyperloop One to shut down

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Post by wilg »

asylteltine wrote: post #209
wilg wrote: post #203

Folks, Hyperloop One is a company unrelated to Elon Musk. Elon Musk is still working on a Hyperloop, via the Boring Company. https://www.boringcompany.com/hyperloop

I’m sure he is working on it just like he’s working on FSD with Tesla.

You don't think Tesla is working on FSD?
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