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> The Hyperloop, to put it generously, has a lot of "unanswered questions" and practical limitations.

It's a chicken-and-egg problem. New things are uncertain, uncertain things are risky, risky things aren't funded, thus new things stay new.

"This new technology is expensive because it's new!" is a tautology that gets us nowhere in terms of progress at a social level.