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Hyperloop One Announces 11 Possible US Routes, Completes Vegas Test Track (theverge.com)
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Thursday Hyperloop One executives announced that they've finished constructing their 1,640-foot-long "DevLoop" test track in the desert outside Las Vegas. But they also revealed possible U.S. routes for their high-speed transportation solution "to initiate a nationwide conversation about the future of American transportation" -- five of them suggested by state transportation department officials from Texas, Florida, Colorado, Nevada and Missouri.
Last May the company invited pitches for routes to various cities, and Thursday's 11 pitches were chosen from 2,600 participants. These 11 pitches will compete with 24 other pitches from around the globe to be one of the three chosen to "work closely with Hyperloop One engineering and business development teams to explore project development and financing." And Thursday they also announced that "by year's end the company will have a team of 500 engineers, fabricators, scientists and other employees dedicated to bringing the technology to life."
Click through for more information, and the list of the 11 U.S. cities being suggested for hyperloop destinations.
Last May the company invited pitches for routes to various cities, and Thursday's 11 pitches were chosen from 2,600 participants. These 11 pitches will compete with 24 other pitches from around the globe to be one of the three chosen to "work closely with Hyperloop One engineering and business development teams to explore project development and financing." And Thursday they also announced that "by year's end the company will have a team of 500 engineers, fabricators, scientists and other employees dedicated to bringing the technology to life."
Click through for more information, and the list of the 11 U.S. cities being suggested for hyperloop destinations.
- Boston-Somerset-Providence
- Cheyenne-Houston
- Chicago-Columbus-Pittsburgh
- Denver-Colorado Springs
- Denver-Vail
- Kansas City-St. Louis
- Los Angeles-San Diego
- Miami-Orlando
- Reno-Las Vegas
- Seattle-Portland
- Dallas/Fort Worth-Austin-San Antonio-Houston
"The event in the nation's capital is being billed as the company's official US launch," writes The Verge, noting the company's current feasiblity studies have been looking at the United Arab Emirates, Finland and Sweden, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Moscow, and the U.K. "Meanwhile, Hyperloop One's main competitor, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (also LA-based), is currently exploring building hyperloops in a half-dozen countries in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East." But the senior VP of global operations for Hyperloop One said this week that "We always thought that North America is going to be our biggest market globally."
Has Trump tweeted his thoughts about this yet?
Will this make America great again?
Are the Mexicans going to pay for it?
Enquiring minds want to know.
Americans hate trains.
You're kidding right? Seriously Elon, where in the UK will you do this, below or above ground?
Are you expecting Eminent Domain in the UK?
This is just comedy.
Funnier even than Uber trying to take on cabbies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Just another Elon Musk con.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Solve an actual logistics problem witch have the value to cover the expenses. Run the numbers, not only the PR - vision quest - tax break machine. It would be nice to have a successful introduction of a fresh technology, for a change.
Elon ought to build the first one down here. It would be great to take a train to New Orleans for lunch, maybe hear a band in Jackson Square, have BBQ at the Broken Spoke in Austin for dinner, catch maybe a Joe Ely show and sleep in my own bed in Houston that same night.
Plus, there ain't shit in between Houston, New Orleans and Austin, so nobody will be inconvenienced.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Vacuum Tube Train Transportation
"Evacuated Tube Transport (ETT) is a new kind of transportation system that requires less than two percent of the energy of current transportation methods. It is also much safer, and can be faster. [...]"
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor...
Cheyenne-Houston?!?
The oilman special? These guys all have private jets.
If you talk to Vail locals who knew the original founders (there's plenty still around), they will tell you that Vail's site was chosen in part because it's on the opposite side of Vail Pass from Denver, thus making it hard for large numbers of people to get in after a big snow dump. I don't think Vail would want this tunnel thing.
Long distance "tubes" will inevitably cross fault lines in seismically active regions. What happens to the people travelling 500 MPH inside that tube during a moderate to strong earthquake?
If it goes to Rockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, I'm all for it. It'll put them on the map for sure.
Maybe I can not be a part of the team that builds starships, but at least I can become part of this alternate future!!
Would be awesome.
I never understood how retarded people really are until I started reading comments.
The Lege is currently working on legislation meant to restrict the ability of transportation projects, specifically high speed rail, to use state funds and emminent domain to complete the projects.
And why do you need state funds to build something so obviously profitable? Private companies are going into space now, why not the ground.
If they were building an pipeline, that would be great.
And what is the Hyperloop but the ultimate pipeline?
Austin you are stuck on unreliable busses.
Not when self driving taxis become commonplace (~3 years)
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Given the urban sprawl and ubiquitous cars there is no real point in connecting old city centers with other city centers.
One of the suggested routes is Chicago-Pittsburgh. The distance between I76-I79 intersection north of Pittsburgh and I294-I80 intersection south of Chicago is about 480 miles. A non stop train at 160 mph can cover it in 3 hours. If it is possible to drive a car on to a flat bed car at I76-I79, park and sit inside the car for three hours while the train hauls you up to I80-I294 could be developed at reasonable cost. Add a few passenger cars for "first class" and let people sit in their own cars for "economy". Add concessionaires for food service for another line of revenue.
If highway intersections about 450 miles apart are connected by such trains covering them in 3 hours, and if there is a network of them and if the service has enough frequency, there will be enough demand for it. You save on rental cars where you go, and you can travel 900 miles a night on two legs, without paying for motel/hotel. Saving on tolls too.
Rolling friction between steel wheels and steel rails is so low, a two ton car goes 225 miles on a gallon of gas. 450 miles in three hours for a 2 ton car and five passengers can be priced competitively with gas and tolls. For USA such a solution that allows you to take the car with you is a lot more appealing because of the car culture and the lower population density.
I grew up in India with very cheap trains. I could catch a train at 10pm in Bangalore, with a sleeper berth, and wake up in Chennai or Hyderabad after a good night sleep. I have seen how expensive it is to grade and level and lay tracks. It is a criminal waste we let wonderfully graded rail right of ways decay and rot without proper maintenance. Worse, we let the continuous rights of way be broken into fragments by selling off a few parcels of land along the way. We won't be able to rebuild them ever.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Airplanes can be spaceous, and have walk up ticketing, have better air traffic control, and bigger airport capacity. That all costs money. Airplanes are inherently fuel inefficient. Lots of r&d, optimization, and lack of creature comfort are used to squeeze a whopping 80 seat miles per gallon. That optimization means a person carryable bomb can kill hundreds, so hello security.
High speed rail has a lower seat cost than airplanes, so it uses some of that on walk up tickets, and more spacious seating. You do have to pay for and maintain the fixed infrastructure.
Americans are cheap, so they put up with the hassles of air travel to save money.
California has mountains, and mountains block high speed rail, unless you drill tunnels through them, and tunnels are very expensive. France has flat land, which is cheap for HSR. China and Japan had enough population density to make it worthwhile to deal with some mountains. California and Australia don't have enough people to make it worthwhile. But hey, politicians want HSR, just like France.
So many people lost their lives when we undertook learning to fly, all the way through to rocketry and going to outer space. Every step of the way there were failures and we learned something new re engineered and now we take flying for granted. So maybe someday this kind of travel will be workable, but I dont see it anytime soon.
I just can't get the idea out of my head that when this idea fails, its going to fail in a very catastrophic way, something that 'wasn't considered possible', or wasn't even considered. The forces involved here are pretty hefty, the environment uncontrollable and unforgiving. Let alone any consideration for vandalism or worse, a structure like that seems especially vulnerable to those kinds of things.
I've made a huge mistake.
Surely you mean "Click through for more information, and the list of the 22 U.S. cities being suggested for hyperloop destinations."
Unless of course they're makng a big star with a switch in the middle
They should try China instead. The USA is not even very interested in looking after the infrastructure already in place.
Does this give new life to the phrase 'Totally Tubular?'
Thursday Hyperloop One executives announced
When did Thursday become an adjective? Was it supposed to say thirty? Or thirsty?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
MARTA seems to be helping with the bridge collapse. All of the drivers left on the road are reporting much faster than normal commutes because everyone else jumped on MARTA.