“It’ll be complete in 2 years”
-some idiot emerald baron 8 years ago
I think there needs to be some disambiguation.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop One is literally a train. They themselves call it a train. I guess the idea is that they’re small individual cars (called pods) instead of a chain of train cars connected together, which seems really energy inefficient.
Elon Musk’s Hyperloop is a train for automobiles, which has all the inefficient downsides of a personal car, with none of the energy benefits of a train. It is the worst of both worlds. And it relies on car infrastructure at both ends, so it will bottleneck just like a highway on/off ramp. Completely nonsensical.
It’s basically much more expensive slightly faster trains right?
Much more expensive? Have you looked at how much it costs to build subways in the US compared to EU? It’s absolutely insane. We are failing to do this affordably. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184420745/why-building-public-transit-in-the-us-costs-so-much
