Several projects like the Hyperloop, driverless automobiles, passenger-carrying drones, etc are focusing on transforming the public transport sector across the world. Among all the means of transportation that the future holds, the skyTran can be the most exciting project backed by Reliance Industries, Innovation Endeavors, and OurCrowd. It can be as cheap as the bus ticket, high-speed, energy-efficient, elevated, and the most important, environmentally friendly. It is an automatic capsule that is magnetically levitated on aerial rails, run through electric and magnetic fields. In this article, we will look into the operation, economics, and innovations of this next-generation transportation system. It might be our hope for clean, green, and super fast means of transportation.

  • k_o_t@lemmy.ml
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    4 years ago

    i know the words “biggest scam” are said about a lot of things, but imo hyperloop might actually be worthy of that title

    the combination of absolutely enormous engineering challenges of making a vacuum tube tens and hundreds kilometers long, and other quite literally deadly challenges associated with it such as anything with regards to passenger safety in the event that “anything” goes wrong…

    and investors are throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at this problem, which once again shows that venture capitalists are modern day bandits that also in most cases don’t know what they’re doing…

    it’s a mutually enabled scam

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      4 years ago

      Well that might be true, but the concept is still more innovative than what the OP posted.

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      4 years ago

      also the fact that this shit was theorized in the 18th century, even the 700mph speeds and pneumatic railways were an actual real thing back then makes it not so innovative.