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by XorNot
4687 days ago
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The big benefit of being "not a plane" is that your emergency measures can be built around that concept. There's also a big benefit to only moving 30 people at once - terrorism looks for mass casualties or mass hostages. Blowing up a hyperloop is basically like bombing a bus - no one really bothers to try. The big benefit of hyperloops over planes would all depend on how quickly you could brake those pods and re-pressurize the tube to let people escape. Because that's something you definitely can't do on a plane and it governs most of our thinking about them - if anything happens, you're possibly over an hour from being able to land anywhere and no one is able to get off quickly. |
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Oh, bus-bombing happens; mostly in the middle-east, but it did happen in London once. You can google it.
I also expect that an explosion inside a depressurised pipe would shut the whole thing down in a way that an explosion above a road surface would not.