[iraphael]

What I don't like about the hyperloop is its focus on cars as a solution to the transportation problem. Mass transit can be way more efficient and desirable, as well as allow pedestrians to take back city life.

A great book on topics related to this is "The Great Good Place" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Good_Place_(Oldenbur...

[olegkikin]

The under-city car tunnel project is not hyperloop, it's a separate project, no vacuum involved, just multilevel tunnels with fast automatic pods for cars.

[bogomipz]

Hyperloop is both passenger and freight, it is mass transit. Where do you see it as focusing on cars as a solution?

>"Mass transit can be way more efficient and desirable, as well as allow pedestrians to take back city life."

Indeed mass transit "Can be" more efficient and desirable. Unfortunately however there's often a host of real world constraints such as budgetary, political, and logistical that seem to ensure that its never optimally efficient or desirable. See:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/interrogatio...