Shocking news! In an incredible breakthrough for American mass-transit engineering, the transportation technology company Virgin Hyperloop this past weekend successfully moved two people 500 meters across the barren Las Vegas desert at a top speed of just over 100 mph, setting a new world record for the absolute most pitiful thing anyone not named “Elon […]

It's a race to the bottom with these 'not-trains'.

Seriously, just build trains.

  • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    [T]he hyperloop pods “can travel at the speed of aircraft.” Which is true, in the sense that commercial aircraft [...] do sometimes travel at 100 miles per hour, on the ground, for seconds at a time, during takeoff or landing, when they are going only a fraction as fast as they’re capable of going.

    lmao