Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged High-Speed Rail Project

Re:Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged High-Speed... by richk449 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @09:31PM (#18624640)

Very impressive. But in just three minutes, I thought of an even better plan: put a $10M wormhole between LA and SF and have near instant travel. Wormholes don’t quite exist yet, but they seem close at hand.

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Re:Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged High-Speed... by jakecopp on Friday December 07, 2018 @01:11AM (#18625512)

I thought of an even better plan: put a $7.5B Hyperloop between LA and SF and have near instant travel. Hyperloops don't quite exist yet, but they seem close at hand.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/050815/elon-...

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Re:Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged High-Speed... by eloff on Thursday December 06, 2018 @10:31PM (#18624929)

There was a plane featured on HN this week with those exact specs.

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Re:Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged High-Speed... by Piskvorrr on Friday December 07, 2018 @07:16AM (#18627018)

...and last year, and the one before that, and the one before that. And each of them has, for some unfathomable reason, failed to materialize. But that's just a small matter of sky-piloting (in the original sense, i.e. "pie in the sky").

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Re:Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged High-Speed... by richk449 on Thursday December 06, 2018 @10:54PM (#18624999)

For sale for $3M?

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Re:Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged High-Speed... by eloff on Friday December 07, 2018 @01:41AM (#18625620)

Yes, but I have my doubts

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Re:Fast Train to Failure: California’s Mismanaged High-Speed... by Someone on Friday December 07, 2018 @03:44AM (#18626044)

“aims to have one flying early next year.”, and HN is skeptical about it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18602771)

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