[Cthulhu_]

This puts a LOT of faith / confidence in and requirements on hardware and communications; while it all sounds good on paper / in your head / in theory, there's going to be a ton of practical issues that someone more qualified than me will be able to list.

It's got the same energy as Musk advocating for Hyperloop and/or car tunnels by amortizing all the practical, cost, engineering, legal and safety considerations. Sure, in theory a maglev train in a vacuum tube is super fast, but in practice building the infrastructure is prohibitively expensive and there's not a big enough market for it.

[londons_explore]

The market for people transport is huge. Imagine the cost of all apartments in manhattan @ $3000/sq foot. Now imagine the cost of the same apartments built in upstate new york @ $250/sq foot.

A transit provider who can get people from a house in a rural area to manhattan in 15 mins can pocket that difference, which is huuuuge.

[bluGill]

> Imagine the cost of all apartments in manhattan @ $3000/sq foot.

Does such a thing exist? A tiny bathroom is 25sq feet - or $75000. That just seems too much.

Zillow lists studio apartments in Manhattan for $3000-$5000/month. They also list apartments in New Jersey for $250/month just 30 miles away (1 hour drive to Manhattan according to maps). At that distance we don't need fancy hyperloop, we just need good higher speed rail service easially done with existing technology. (I have no idea how the apartments compare other than price - likely the Manhattan ones are much nicer for the same amount of space and the New Jersey neighborhood may be unsafe)

[NovemberWhiskey]

$2,000 to $3,000 per square foot is absolutely the asking price for condos in parts of New York like Tribeca and Soho.

[withinboredom]

In the US, there is already plenty of public transport that people don’t ride due to stigma. How will the Hyperloop solve this problem?