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Re:Winning Hyperloop design revealed by MIT engineers by kuschku on Thursday February 04, 2016 @12:48AM (#11032260)
Having a worse throughput than a lame of highway is bad, though.

Hyperloop is a low-latency low-capacity transport method.

It's not much better at latency/cost than a VacTrain or a regular MagLev, but basically has less than 10% of the capacity.

Basically, the Hyperloop will be a transport method used by a bunch of rich people, not by the ten thousands or hundredthousands of people who'd use a HSR or MagLev on the same route.

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Re:Winning Hyperloop design revealed by MIT engineers by dmitriy_ko on Thursday February 04, 2016 @03:10AM (#11032646)
This 10% figure seems to originate on this blog post: http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19848/musks-hyperlo...

The guy makes assumption of single 28 person pod leaving every 30 second to get 3360 passengers/hour throughput. But these parameters are not set in stone. Pods could be joined into platoons that move together to form "trains". With 10 pod platoon you get 33600 passenger/hour -- neary 3x throughput of California High Speed rail when it's built. Pods could also be made wider to accommodate multiple people along cross-section.

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Re:Winning Hyperloop design revealed by MIT engineers by baq on Thursday February 04, 2016 @08:04AM (#11033650)
a wider pod means a wider tube means a lot more money to put down in front.
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