Comment on Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit
meeeeetch@lemmy.world 1 year agoBecause maintaining a train length vacuum is really difficult and doesn’t really provide that big of a benefit.
Atmospheric rail has been attempted with varying degrees of success (but never to a ‘replaces traditional rail’ degree) for 200 years.
rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Not mentioning that making tunnels for rail in rocky areas is already hard. And modern railways are not something simple or easy. That’s without space tech from futurism-themed magazines for teenage boys.
A normal (not high-speed, not something like TGV) railway line getting you from A city to B city 20% slower than a car, departing 5-6 times a day evenly distributed, is already an enormous dramatic change.