Reading through the proposal, it seems insane, straight out of science fiction, but also pretty genius. While I don't understand a lot of the engineering and physics, it seems like, if it works, this could really be an awesome new way to travel. http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha-20130812.pdf What do you guys think; the next evolution in the way humans travel, or just some crazy science project?
I'd imagine by the time that such technology is perfect/works well enough for mass use, I'll either be too old & incapacitated to travel on it, or I'll be dead*. Either way, it would be a great fundamental change in the way folks travel, so I hope that it does happen eventually. *The thought of using such a Hyperloop to travel from different ballparks to watch baseball games makes me want this to happen so, so much sooner.
So basically this guy wants to build Val Kilmer's Bat-Tunnel Rocket Coffin thing. Hopefully it has spare cupholders.
I thought the US was bankrupt? How can you pay for drones and a hyperloop? Priorities people, priorities.
Sounds like a non-starter. We keep getting progressively fatter as a nation so imagine the cost of constantly having to install bigger tubes.
China claims to have made the first real test Researchers tested the train along a roughly 1.25-mile track in the province of Shanxi in northern China. During the test, it reached speeds of up to 80 mph inside a "low vacuum tube," according to the report. The team is only getting started. The goal is to eventually construct a full-scale, 37-mile test track and have trains reach speeds of up to 621 mph. I just saw how old this thread is.
Since its proposed by Musk, I'm assuming everyone who gets on it dies on the first run, after it jumps whatever it tracks are and mows down some houses and pets. Then he will say that was the Beta run.
I'm sure no matter what, it'll still be completed before New York's East Side Access, connecting the Long Island Railroad to Grand Central Station.
A Wall Street Journal article just came out on Musk's Boring Company. China is building a ton of conventional high-speed rail. It's better than even the theoretical capabilities of a hyperloop especially in capacity. As a reminder, this is a "finished" "hyperloop" courtesy of Musk:
