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by kuschku 3688 days ago
Well, obviously they want to keep the hype alive. So it’s understandable that they’d refuse to change the name.

Sadly, this also means we have a lot of people think this is something revolutionary, although I guess that’s intentional.

It’s really annoying when you consider how the US refused a proposal from japanese companies a few years ago to build a MagLev system between Boston, NY, Washington, with capacities around 10k people per hour.