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2017 Medium Article: "Why The Hyperloop Will Fail" (medium.com)
submitted 9 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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"At the end of the day I just want to know who’ll be responsible when the tube collapses and people get seriously hurt or worse. Can’t say I didn’t warn you guys."

Problem 1: Thermal Expansion Problem 2: Vacuum Problem 3: Scale Problem 4: Energy Requirements / Cost Problem 5: Deceleration Problem 6: Acceleration

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[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 41 points 9 months ago

Hyperloop didn't fail, it did exactly what Musk wanted. It killed the California high speed rail plan. At least for a few years.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 14 points 9 months ago

I don’t understand how this was not immediately obvious to everyone. Cult of personality I guess. It’s weird because back then I somewhat admired Elon but even so it was obvious that this idea was totally detached from reality.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The hypershit failed years ago, why do we care now?

[–] Syntha@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hyperloop One shut down recently

[–] lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 9 months ago

Got to wonder what kept it going so long.

On the plus side I can imagine many engineers and physics students probably learned quite a bit, and had some useful hands-on experience too

[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Wall St has fallen out of love with musky boi

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

This article was contemporaneously posted with the actual announcement, but I agree that I don’t know why it was posted here 6 years later.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There were plenty of voices saying this when Elon put out that whitepaper in 2013. We've known for a century that's its a dead end, we didn't need to spend a decade learning that again.

[–] ourob@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 9 months ago

Elon didn’t start hyper loop because he thought it would be successful. He started it to kill California’s high speed rail plans.

https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1571628269555826688?lang=en