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 (4 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 (3 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... 🤔 🚉

[–] 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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