Hyperloop’s loss is high-speed rail’s gain | TechCrunch
In 2013, Elon Musk published a white paper that teased the idea of zipping from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 35 minutes through a vacuum-sealed
Finally everyone sees the hyperloop as a massive Elmo grift.
They just opened the Brightline connection between Orlando and Miami. It's cool that we have a rail connection now but for my girlfriend and I to go down it would be $300 round trip. And it would take just as long to drive. It's really not very "high speed" at all. Maybe compared to Amtrak.
Brightline is also building what it calls “the nation’s first true high-speed rail network” between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. That project received $3 billion of the funding recently announced by the Biden administration, and is expected to break ground in early 2024.
Oh for FUCKS sake
I really, really think high-speed rail is the wrong direction to take. I'm very much in the "maglev" camp
Maglevs are economically unviable in the absence of room temperature superconductors. So being in the "sci-fi" camp isn't really the flex you think it is.
The Shanghai Maglev train has a top speed of 190 mph and is in active daily use. Please tell me more from your "research" how it is unviable despite already existing in one of the densest metro regions in the world
Read this, maybe you'll learn something:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev
It's far more expensive than traditional rail. You can get pretty high speeds with traditional rail too, in western Europe there are trains reaching 300-350 km/h.