Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit::The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.

  • @Lanusensei87
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    4310 months ago

    Their Maglevs are not Hyperloops…

    • @Mojojojo1993
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      -5510 months ago

      I’m aware. That wasn’t the question

      • @Lanusensei87
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        5010 months ago

        It is the answer to your question tho. Maglev is feasible, Hyperloop, not so much.

        • @[email protected]
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          1610 months ago

          And even maglev is barely done because it’s so expensive to build. Hyperloop is wrapping that same maglev train into a tube that should maintain a vacuum for kms on end, and pretty much every failure mode would end up being genuinely catastrophic.

          • Kitty Jynx
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            29 months ago

            Plus you would have to armor the whole thing and spend a bunch on security because one guy with a .50 rifle or some explosives could destroy a whole section and close the whole thing by punching one hole in it.

            • @[email protected]
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              19 months ago

              Haha, yeah. Remember the chaos when militia guys started shooting at transformers in substations? Every hick with a gun would be shooting at it just to shut it down.

      • @WhatAmLemmy
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        2510 months ago

        They gave you the only answer your stupid question deserves.

        • @Mojojojo1993
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          -39 months ago

          Oh name calling. How very thoughtful of you.

          Clearly very smert