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incredible to me that europeans are getting in on this grift https://twitter.com/MimiBilling/status/1310475034855645184">https://twitter.com/MimiBilli...
at least in America, "let& #39;s invent an entirely new technology stack for mass transport with benefits ranging from marginal to nonexistent" at least has the defence "well we don& #39;t have many trains so whatever we do has to start from scratch"
Americans are saying "should we buy a bike or a flying car, well, a flying car looks cool and the bean salesman says it will for sure deliver in the next 5-10 years!"
Hyperloop is one of those things that really exposes the failure of "tech" thinking. Like, have you seen a high-speed train? Have you sat down and read even the bare minimum of what it takes to enable movable-block signalling at 350kph? That is deep, deep tech my friend
A thing I& #39;d forgotten until I went back and read my now-seven-years-old piece on why Musk& #39;s Hyperloop napkin sketch was nonsense is that the proposal was aimed at destroying real public transport from day one https://www.newstatesman.com/economics/2013/08/overhyped-hyperloop-elon-musks-plan-superfast-load-nonsense">https://www.newstatesman.com/economics...
Literally the very first document ever published about the Hyperloop was entirely about crushing support for California& #39;s high-speed rail proposal, from a man whose wealth is built on selling expensive cars to eco-conscious Americans
Hyperloop will never be a useful mass transit system, but it& #39;s doing its job without a centimetre of track being built, because its job is to offer politicians an excuse to scrap funding for railways
oh wait wait one last coda: you know the one thing hyperloop has going for it? its speed?
it& #39;s slower than trains. normal-ass trains.
it& #39;s slower than trains. normal-ass trains.
it& #39;s slower than trains *from 1990*
