“At the end of the day I just want to know who’ll be responsible when the tube collapses and people get seriously hurt or worse. Can’t say I didn’t warn you guys.”
Problem 1: Thermal Expansion Problem 2: Vacuum Problem 3: Scale Problem 4: Energy Requirements / Cost Problem 5: Deceleration Problem 6: Acceleration
Hyperloop didn’t fail, it did exactly what Musk wanted. It killed the California high speed rail plan. At least for a few years.
There were plenty of voices saying this when Elon put out that whitepaper in 2013. We’ve known for a century that’s its a dead end, we didn’t need to spend a decade learning that again.
Elon didn’t start hyper loop because he thought it would be successful. He started it to kill California’s high speed rail plans.
https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1571628269555826688?lang=en
I don’t understand how this was not immediately obvious to everyone. Cult of personality I guess. It’s weird because back then I somewhat admired Elon but even so it was obvious that this idea was totally detached from reality.
The hypershit failed years ago, why do we care now?
Hyperloop One shut down recently
