Elon Musk's new 5th form of transportation. The Hyperloop.

[|Zach|]

All That We Know About Musk's Hyperloop: The Infographic


http://jalopnik.com/all-that-we-know...hic-1066973247



As we've all heard by now Elon Musk, un-contented with running an electric car company and a spaceship company, will be announcing plans for a 30-minute round trip LA to SF transit system. Luckily, someone has shared this lovely infographic with us showing everything we know so far.

And what we know so far isn't really all that much: Musk says it's not a tube with a pure vacuum in it, it could be powered entirely by solar panels and even generate electricity, and it's sort of a "cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table," which coincidentally is exactly what my drawings for my future home's rec room included back when I was six.

The actual details should be revealed on Monday, so those of you creating scale models in your backyards shouldn't have to wait too much longer. And while Musk now says he's too busy to build it himself (come on! Just skip your Tuesday night hot yoga class, man) I'm still hoping this thing actually will get built, so I can finally get looked down upon by San Franciscans in 30 minutes instead of the usual 5 hours by car.

Info graphic is huge but worth expanding and checking out.

[GloucesterChief]

Originally Posted by DaFace

One of the most challenging aspects of any sort of mass transit development in the modern age is all the stuff that's in the way. In order to get stations in the most convenient locations, you usually have to destroy a ton of existing structures (houses, buildings, roads, etc.). Denver recently expanded tons of rail lines out into the burbs, but the stations are largely in places everyone has to drive to since they built them along existing freight rail lines.

Both Japan and the Netherlands use a hub a spoke system when it comes to that. The fast trains come into a central station and more local transit radiates from there.

Japan's metro companies really are real estate companies though. They own the stations and the office, retail, and sometimes housing built into or on top of the stations.

[threebag]

Originally Posted by dlphg9

We need better transportation in the country. Bullet trains and things like that.

Catch a ride on Direkshun’s mom?

[PatMahomesIsGod]

Massive. Scam.

[Jewish Rabbi]

Originally Posted by PatMahomesIsGod

Massive. Scam.

You’d be all about it if he built one to Belize

[Chiefs4TheWin]

I forgot about this bullshit, but since I was an early adopter of calling it bullshit I'll chime in again.

There is no way in hell you can maintain a vacuum seal on a tube going for 100 miles yet alone 20, or 15, or 10.

The maintenance required would be insane and any failure in the tube = scraping all your particles off the walls.

Reading back I said yeah sure test it, but I mean this was the obvious reality. Sounded like a scam from the start and now all that money is gone.

The white paper was trash to anyone who actually read it.