• wabafee@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    How does the Hyperloop work anyway? How they manage to avoid accidents. Are they put into rails like trains? Aside from the requirement of having a car to use one.

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      7 days ago

      You’re talking about the Loop, which is so stupid they couldn’t make self-driving work on their private road.

      Hyperloop is a 100-year-old concept called “vacuum train” that Elon summarized in a sci-fi white paper with lots of nonsense (concerning the cold gas thrusters alone: they would destroy the vacuum that took days to pump and their tanks would make the train 8x longer) and “declined to patent it out of generosity” (in fact, the idea cannot be patented due to both age and insanity). He only used it to delay California’s HSR to make sure people kept using Teslas.