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Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by korse on Thursday December 21, 2023 @03:38PM (#38726567)
Contrarian take, but tons of truck traffic on interstate highways makes driving far more fun (as long as there isn't road maintenance or undue stoppage).

I'm actually looking forward to future me being able to ride my motorcycle around a freight-train's worth of semi-automated cargo-haulers on interstates that are mostly devoid of vacationing families.

Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by askonomm on Thursday December 21, 2023 @06:49PM (#38728840)
To each their own, but as a fellow motorcycle rider myself, I absolutely shit myself around huge trucks that won't be able to even see me.
Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by bombcar on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:04PM (#38728970)
I guess you’re supposed to reenact the space whale scene from treasure planet.
Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by strictnein on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:09PM (#38729021)
An absolute gem of a movie. Didn't see it until I had kids and it was one of the few movies that I didn't get tired of rewatching again and again with them.
Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by bombcar on Thursday December 21, 2023 @10:51PM (#38730756)
It really is one of the top-tier movies and it’s quite sad it didn’t get the recognition it deserves.
Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by hughesjj on Thursday December 21, 2023 @10:52PM (#38730758)
With all this expensive AF gear it's humbling to know that a single tire can still end me quick enough I wouldn't even know it happened.... In the best case.
Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by mynameisnoone on Thursday December 21, 2023 @07:55PM (#38729474)
Only in Wyoming where, unlike Texas, truckers have the sense to stay to the right. Also, there is de facto no speed limit there because there are only a handful of WSTs. I suggest avoiding Wyoming <-> Colorado unless you have nose plugs or no sense of smell.
Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by jazzyjackson on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:49PM (#38729934)
Wyoming is exciting because a gust of wind can blow a semi into you at any second.
Re:Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit by elcritch on Thursday December 21, 2023 @09:12PM (#38730104)
Driving across I-80 we'd always count at least a couple of semi's blown over. Not to mention sudden blizzards, snow blowing sideways, or super dense fog.

Once while I living in eastern Wyoming we had an "80 car" pileup, probably more like 60 cars but one tank truck caught fire:

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