Comment by mmanfrin
9 years ago
If he's looking for mega-good, Musk would do significantly
better to drop a full subway network.
Like Hyperloop?
9 years ago
If he's looking for mega-good, Musk would do significantly
better to drop a full subway network.
Like Hyperloop?
Hyperloop was a completely infeasible design that Musk quite openly had no intention of building. It mainly seemed to exist as a tactic to attack actual planned public transport expansion in the Bay Area, which Musk compared it unfavourably to based on figures that didn't add up.
I bet this tunnel boring idea was inspired by the lack of an economical path for hyperloop to get to downtown LA. The hyperloop concept took a lot of heat for that.
This is to subways like hyperloop is to high-speed rail. A stupid overelaboration of an existing, proven idea.
Hyperloop is a 'stupid overelaboration of an existing, proven idea'? I was not aware we had so many proven 600mph high speed rails.
They exist. The problem is getting approval to build them anywhere near residential areas is problematic.
https://www.slashgear.com/japans-new-maglev-bullet-train-is-...
That's 600km/h. For 600mph you'd need Hyperloop to prove they can do that speed first.
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The high speed is the "overelaboration". High-speed rails in many countries can reach 200mph. A 600mph train may be 3x as fast, but the marginal utility is pretty low to me compared to increased cost and reduced capacity.
We don't have any proven Hyperloops at any speed.