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Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit

Maintaining a vacuum over long distances is really fucking hard.
You’d be better served utilising existing rail infrastructure and improving that to make high speed trains possible.

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LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Whole purposes of hyperloop was to derail any constructive debate on existing rail network. Pun intended. I’d say hyperloop was quite successful.

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- fosforus@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  Whole purposes of hyperloop was to derail any constructive debate on existing rail network.
  
  The role of government needs to be entirely about removing obstacles on private entities that try to create new (or old if that works better) methods of transportation. If they let this fucking guy, or any other fucking guy talk them into anything, they’re doing their job wrong. Even if Elon Musk is a persuasive person, this is almost entirely a failure of government.
  
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Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Small vaccum then. They managed to build a tunnel between France and England. Put people on the moon. Can do a lot

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- echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  We do one thing. Must do other thing. Smart.
  
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