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As opposed to Elon Musk being a sacred cow who we cannot criticise at all without being attacked/downmodded?

The Hyperloop, to put it generously, has a lot of "unanswered questions" and practical limitations. Just considering the safety (and escape) of this thing takes you into areas that raise legitimate concern.

I'm not going to discount it completely with aircraft still around and failing as badly as they fail, it might be workable, I just want to see some figures on how much it will cost Vs. Maglev (a technology already deemed too expensive to deploy on the medium to large scale), and more so how much it will cost to make it safe.

Would I love to go across the continental US in a few hours? Heck yeah. Will I be able to afford it if it has Concord's ticket price? Likely not, I'll fly.




> The Hyperloop, to put it generously, has a lot of "unanswered questions" and practical limitations.

It's a chicken-and-egg problem. New things are uncertain, uncertain things are risky, risky things aren't funded, thus new things stay new.

"This new technology is expensive because it's new!" is a tautology that gets us nowhere in terms of progress at a social level.




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