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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

The hyperloop is dead for real this time

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The hyperloop is dead for real this time

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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Turns out the real hyperloop was the friends we made along the way.
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    Hyperloop was always a project to sabotage high-speed rail. Good thing it failed.

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      Either the Americans have very weird ideas about transportation or they’re completely controlled by auto companies. I don’t understand how they think that cars or this stupidloop is better than high speed rail. Traveling by train is far more relaxing, way less infuriating and leaves time for you to do something else meaningful. US is probably the only country that went back on rail transport. Every other country is taking it as far as they possibly can.

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        Either the Americans have very weird ideas about transportation or they’re completely controlled by auto companies.

        Consider both: we know the auto companies controlled the populace by destroying any choice. We also know that public transit is looked on as a plebes travel mode ripe for gutting at every turn so the rich (and those who are gonna be rich any day now) can benefit.

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        US is probably the only country that went back on rail transport. Every other country is taking it as far as they possibly can.

        I don’t know for other countries, but Germany (that has a decent high-speed rail network, to be fair) had a rail network of almost 55,000 km in the 50s and less than 40,000 today. More than 300 train stations have been closed since the year 2000 alone.

        EDIT: sources:
        https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/bahn-schienennetz-deutschland-1835-bis-heute/
        https://www.allianz-pro-schiene.de/themen/aktuell/336-bahnhoefe-seit-2000-stillgelegt/

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      Musk HATES hates public transportation. Which is weird because he’s in a private jet when he travels anyways.

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        It’s not weird at all, he owns a car company.

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        He´s selling cars, you know.

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      If there still isn’t any high-speed rail I wouldn’t say it failed…

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        It’s happening.

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