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SpaceX Is Building a Hyperloop Test Track
Jason Koebler reports that SpaceX is building a small-scale version of Elon Musk's hyperloop transport tube system, which can move cargo and people at speeds over 700 mph. The test track will be approximately one mile long, and its inner diameter will be between four and five feet. But while SpaceX is building the track, it's not going into full development mode. Instead, the company is turning it into a competition. Other organizations will be invited to build pods — the containers that move through the tubes — and test them inside the track. They say the competition will be geared toward university students and independent engineering teams. SpaceX expects the testing to happen next June, and they've published a document with details on the competition. They add, "The knowledge gained here will continue to be open-sourced."
These seem like they may be valid complaints, I don't know. But you're complaining about something in the prototype/proof-of-concept phase. If it works, then they can go about trying to turn it into a practical method of transportation, but at this point, we may as well be complaining about what color it is.