> I remember when Elon came up with the hyper loop idea and everybody I worked with at the time thought it was revolutionary.
When I first saw it, my thoughts were 1) it can't possibly be that cheap, and 2) the turning radius!
It's not that it can't be done. It's that it would probably cost like the very expensive Chūō Shinkansen maglev, which really does work. And has all those necessary things Musk hand-waved, such as emergency access shafts in case there's trouble deep under a mountain, cross-tunnel connections for emergencies, fire suppression...
When I first saw it, my thoughts were 1) it can't possibly be that cheap, and 2) the turning radius!
It's not that it can't be done. It's that it would probably cost like the very expensive Chūō Shinkansen maglev, which really does work. And has all those necessary things Musk hand-waved, such as emergency access shafts in case there's trouble deep under a mountain, cross-tunnel connections for emergencies, fire suppression...