Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 11 months agoThe hyperloop is dead for real this timewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1105arrow-down1external-linkThe hyperloop is dead for real this timewww.theverge.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square22fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.zip
minus-squareheluecht@pirati.calinkfedilinkarrow-up27·11 months ago@throws_lemy Hyperloop is a solution for a non existing problem. There are already fast landline based systems. You can go really fast on rails (see Japan) or you can use a maglev.
minus-square4grams@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·11 months agoIncorrect, the hyperloop always had precisely one purpose, for which it likely was pretty successful: https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-california-high-spee-1849402460
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoI don’t think the problem to be solved was “how to go fast”. It was more like “how to create travel corridors with minimal impact to private property”
@throws_lemy Hyperloop is a solution for a non existing problem. There are already fast landline based systems. You can go really fast on rails (see Japan) or you can use a maglev.
Incorrect, the hyperloop always had precisely one purpose, for which it likely was pretty successful: https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-california-high-spee-1849402460
I don’t think the problem to be solved was “how to go fast”. It was more like “how to create travel corridors with minimal impact to private property”