Re:A skeptical response to Musk's hyperloop
by jacalata on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @02:03PM
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I don't think many people do get motion sickness on airplanes these days actually (on commercial flights I've been on, I haven't seen it at all). Most people don't travel by sailing boats. He is, quite validly, comparing it to the actual methods of travel that potential passengers will be comparing it to - smart money says people travelling between two cities in California have no knowledge of or interest in how much worse it could be if they were actually in Ukraine.
Re:A skeptical response to Musk's hyperloop
by philwelch on Wednesday August 14, 2013 @12:32PM
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He disputes the HL cost estimate too, and judges that it's probably closer to the cost of HSR all things considered.
Getting sick at sea is OK because you have room to vomit in a sanitary way. Hyperloop gives no such concession.
He compares hyperloop with the smoothest mode of transportation invented, and says it will fail because it doesn't meet it's standard. Why not compare it to flying planes or sailing boats? Or riding a Marshrutka in Ukraine?
As for the low capacity - the critique's author says Hyperloop can handle 3 times less passengers per hour. But forgots to mention that you could buy more than 3 HL lanes for the cost of one HSR lane (if I remember correctly).