People are dunking on this a lot because trains, but it seems like they have an advantage in scalability? If you could construct fast trains much more cheaply it would definitely revolutionize transport in a meaningful way
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Not sure how a pod system carrying on the order of 5-10 people is inherently more scalable than a train that carries on the order of 1000? Most of the upfront cost of high-speed rail is in getting a gentle alignment, a problem this shares
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And put it this way - getting two rails parallel over a given distance is a hell of a lot easier than maintaining a vacuum tube over the same length
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I think the advantage of a vacuum train is it can get up to 600mph, maybe more, over long distances whereas HSR typically has service speeds of about 200mph (Conventional maglev only marginally better than 200mph). Just as fast as airliners but at ground level & purely electric.
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In theory! But no one has demonstrated a full-scale prototype that can actually achieve this (and a quick glance at the ride quality in the video suggests it's a long way off!) or actually demonstrated that the engineering realities of maintaining a route stack up
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Yeah, developing something that no one has done before is hard, and lots of people will want to crap on you for trying.
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I think it's reasonable to be skeptical about realistic issues that still have not been overcome when the actual product mostly just exists in promotional videos
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Twitter dunks aren’t reasonable skepticism. They’re just stupid.
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The video directly claims that their approach is cheaper and more scalable than rail. Unless you've got some evidence not presented elsewhere, it's definitely fair to question the assertion given that it is indeed more expensive to construct vacuum tubes than rail
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Marketing videos can claim whatever they want, I'm mostly interested in facts. I'm sure the Hyperloop promotion is doing wonders for their stock, but it appears that they may be talking nonsense
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