[dgellow]

> Now, flicking your wearable token with impatient fingers, you feel a slight force as your Hyperloop pod comes to a stop.

You lost me at “Hyperloop”. How is that a vision of the future when we know for a fact that the idea doesn’t make practical sense?

[Scene_Cast2]

The US already has established air travel. And mass transit via trains is not a technological problem, it is a political and a marketing problem. Hyperloop has the potential to solve the political and marketing problems.

[jcranmer]

Hyperloop struggles mightily with the "mass" part of "mass transit." Its theoretical capacity is easily ⅒th of an equivalent rail line, and even then you're making some heroic assumptions about how frequently the "pods" can be safely dispatched.

[Tiktaalik]

Hyperloop itself creates the political and marketing problem. Is a fantasy created by the billionaire owner of a car company that is a distraction from the actual totally viable solution of contemporary high speed rail.

[dgellow]

Hyperloop may solve political and marketing problems, but doesn’t solve the “cheap, safe, and fast transport problem” in any ways. That’s a completely impractical concept.

[bluescrn]

Until the first 'hypercrash'

[saalweachter]

To be fair, most "visions of the future" are filled with impractical ideas.

[temp0826]

It’s the monorail of the future!