I don't know, I'd love to go across the country in 10 minutes. I live in Seattle and have a lot of friends and former co-workers that live in NYC/DC/Boston/Philly. Flying is expensive and miserable. Looping (Can we figure out a gerund for this? Looping sounds wrong) over to Brooklyn for drinks and then heading home sounds awesome. I think it would open up rapid transit in a way that just isn't possible for flight.

In my younger days I had a PVC potato gun which everyone referred to as a "fffoooooont cannon", due to the sound it made when you ignited the hairspray.

I imagine a hyperloop pod taking off down the tube will have a similar, but more awesome, sound.

I'd happily announce that I was about to fffoooooont across the country to visit someone.

hairspray? we always used ether (starting fluid).

And in order to do that we need to build a massive series of tubes ? I don't think so.

Better predictive SCM similar to what Amazon has been doing negates this for the majority of online purchases.

I never thought of this application before. It would open up a lot of interesting possibilities.