You’re talking about the Loop, which is so stupid they couldn’t make self-driving work on their private road.
Hyperloop is a 100-year-old concept called “vacuum train” that Elon summarized in a sci-fi white paper with lots of nonsense (concerning the cold gas thrusters alone: they would destroy the vacuum that took days to pump and their tanks would make the train 8x longer) and “declined to patent it out of generosity” (in fact, the idea cannot be patented due to both age and insanity). He only used it to delay California’s HSR to make sure people kept using Teslas.
![[image] Sometimes it feels like folks in US would build anything but efficient transit 🤦](https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/9fee6912-22f8-44a0-b34c-75dd59e25f54.png){kind=link}
You’re talking about the Loop, which is so stupid they couldn’t make self-driving work on their private road.
Hyperloop is a 100-year-old concept called “vacuum train” that Elon summarized in a sci-fi white paper with lots of nonsense (concerning the cold gas thrusters alone: they would destroy the vacuum that took days to pump and their tanks would make the train 8x longer) and “declined to patent it out of generosity” (in fact, the idea cannot be patented due to both age and insanity). He only used it to delay California’s HSR to make sure people kept using Teslas.