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Re:SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time” by jleader on Friday January 16, 2015 @04:55PM (#8901984)
Gas and oil pipelines typically use expansion loops to handle thermal expansion/contraction by flexing the pipe: http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PipelineExpansionLoop/

Because the hyperloop cars are discrete (as opposed to the continuous flow in a pipeline), I'd expect them to cause a lot of stress on the pipeline walls if they had to run around the bends in an expansion loop.

Re:SpaceX: “Close, but no cigar. This time” by seanflyon on Friday January 16, 2015 @06:00PM (#8902334)
That's why Elon's plan is to let the endpoints move instead.