Elon has all but admitted that the hyperloop was just a distraction to derail California's public rail plans, and now that that ship has sailed he doesnt give a shit about hyperloop anymore. The Hyperloop concept is literally just a tool that Elon uses to prevent development of public transport in California so that people will buy more teslas instead.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Hyperloop seemed impossible form the get go. It had so many issues that are easily solved by... Not putting people in vacuum tubes

[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Here let me try to solve all of it's issues:

Get rid of the vacuum idea to reduce complexity and points of failure.
Move track above ground to reduce manufacture/maintenance costs.
Make the "pods" longer and chain multiple pods together to increase efficiency.

Wait a minute... 🤔 🚉

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Tech Bros invented the train.

[–] vfreire85@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

now go check out who's got the best rail services around the world. with the possible exception of japan, who's still got some measure of trouble with some of their private operators, nearly all of the rail operators who are consistently good are state owned.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

Nah, we can't have that, it's boring and works. We need exciting and impossible

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