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Re:Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Becomes Reality as Agreements Secur... by dragonwriter on Monday June 08, 2015 @08:52AM (#9678639)
Actually the paper answers the question of how it would cross the bay--it wouldn't. The proposed "San Francisco" terminus is in the East Bay (IIRC, pretty far east, as well). A significant part of the cost savings of the route proposed as an alternative to the HSR route cones from, unlike HSR, not actually going anywhere near the urban centers on either the SF or LA end.
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Re:Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Becomes Reality as Agreements Secur... by apendleton on Monday June 08, 2015 @11:12AM (#9679586)
Elon Musk seems to have a particular version of a progressive vision of the future that accomplishes environmental sustainability without requiring people to make any real lifestyle changes. After all, his solution to the environmental unfriendliness of cars is more environmentally friendly cars (Tesla), not other modes of transport that are more efficient per passenger.

So, the cynical take: of course he's going to back a high-speed transportation option that still assumes cars and driving everywhere, rather than one that potentially obviates the need for them by taking people directly from high-density center to high-density center.

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Re:Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Becomes Reality as Agreements Secur... by jfb on Monday June 08, 2015 @09:33AM (#9678900)
Hayward, I think. This is an interesting definition of "reality", and hyperloop is a deeply unserious Elon Musk Gedankenexperiment that's only given column inches because of the deeply unserious nature of what passes for journalism among the lickspittle shoeshine boys of Silicon Valley wannabes.
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Re:Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Becomes Reality as Agreements Secur... by dragonwriter on Monday June 08, 2015 @10:05AM (#9679103)
Well, its probably not surprising that a startup ecosystem that is all about selling longshots attracts around is peripheries, journalistic and otherwise, people who are prone to accept longshots as much more probable than they are.
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