Re:Elon Musk's Hyperloop is viable, says maker of simulation...
by robbiep on Wednesday September 18, 2013 @07:14PM
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I agree, I don't see the damage.
In most real life situations anything that doesn't kill you immediately can wait 15-20 minutes, and when you get out the other end you can have great medical treatment.
Anything that requires you to be seen by some serious medical support faster than that will generally kill you regardless of the situation (ie. Left Main coronary embolism which kills 250,000 Americans a year)
Edit: complete misuse of iatrogenic. Too little sleep. Whoops
Well, with an average of 15 minutes until you arrive at the other end, where presumably EMTs are already waiting, I don' think you really need a close comparison. 15 minute response times are hardly unheard of and you can put yourself in a much more isolated situation just driving down the road in a car in some of the less dense parts of America.
I don't think this is a problem that actually needs a solution (though the public may very well demand one irrationally, much like the safety concerns the public is going to have with self-driving cars that are safer than human drivers...).