New York to DC Hyperloop like gets the go-ahead

[zxsq]

Original source is Elon Musk's twitter via Spiceworks

 

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Musk published a tweet earlier today, saying that he “just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.” This is the first line Musk’s Hyperloop project plans to construct, with L.A.-San Francisco and Texas lines planned.

So, while not ultra official, it looks like the Hyperloop is becoming a reality. A new era for high-tech transportation, and boy would fast trains be nice eh?

 

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The route will take riders from New York to Washington in 29 minutes, a significant reduction from existing express routes which take two and a half hours to travel between the two cities.

Now this is a good early step for getting between any major cities relatively fast. Imagine something like NY to Chicago in 2 hours?

[JediFragger]

I'm not a US citizen but this is fantastic news! Fantastic technological progress, and I hope it spreads!

[Bananasplit_00]

Well I guess they are making the world largest vacuum chamber then. Guess a bunch of the material cost might be reduced if they are putting it underground 

[zxsq]

3 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

Well I guess they are making the world largest vacuum chamber then. Guess a bunch of the material cost might be reduced if they are putting it underground 

The Boring Company, Musk's tunnel boring company, is involved, so I'd hazard to guess that is is underground.

[Cyndre1033]

While I am very excited for this, (I live just a bit north of D.C.) I am skeptical about how long it will take to actually become a reality. 

[2FA]

1 minute ago, Cyndre1033 said:

While I am very excited for this, (I live just a bit north of D.C.) I am skeptical about how long it will take to actually become a reality. 

Expect 10+ years since they will be boring a tunnel the whole way. Just look how long it took to bore tunnels through mountains in Italy for their bullet trains.

[Cyndre1033]

1 minute ago, DeadEyePsycho said:

Expect 10+ years since they will be boring a tunnel the whole way. Just look how long it took to bore tunnels through mountains in Italy for their bullet trains.

I was expecting that to start, but how much beyond that?  I dont want to get excited and have to wait 25 years until it opens, and then would probably be ludicrously expensive. 

[zMeul]

18 minutes ago, zxsq said:

So, while not ultra official, it looks like the Hyperloop is becoming a reality

reality means feasible, actually achievable - Hyperloop is utter fantasy

[Bananasplit_00]

8 minutes ago, zxsq said:

The Boring Company, Musk's tunnel boring company, is involved, so I'd hazard to guess that is is underground.

Yah it's probably going to be a long ass two way tunnel that they remove most of the air from. 

 

4 minutes ago, Cyndre1033 said:

I was expecting that to start, but how much beyond that?  I dont want to get excited and have to wait 25 years until it opens, and then would probably be ludicrously expensive. 

Tickets are going to be expensive as hell either way 

[cj09beira]

27 minutes ago, zMeul said:

reality means feasible, actually achievable - Hyperloop is utter fantasy

it could be done, but its just so dangerous, its like having a gigantic vacum gun, waiting to go off if anything happens to the shell,

underground would be easier to work around that but still, it would be so easy for someone to destroy it with a simple drill, even a small hole would be enough

[Juanitology]

4 hours ago, cj09beira said:

it could be done, but its just so dangerous, its like having a gigantic vacum gun, waiting to go off if anything happens to the shell,

underground would be easier to work around that but still, it would be so easy for someone to destroy it with a simple drill, even a small hole would be enough

I'm gonna go ahead and guess there'll be plenty of safeguards and redundant systems in place to prevent that sort of thing for causing any loss of life or major accidents.

[SCHISCHKA]

great a re-invention of something that has been tried and failed 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube#In_public_transportation

 

 

[Memories4K]

Isn't the hyperloop a meme?

Wasn't it proven to be a stupid idea despite how cool it sounds?

[KE2012]

Meanwhile over here in the UK, we're only paying £450 MILLION per mile for a few extra minutes cut off a journey. I'd much rather put the 100 Billion we are investing in HS2 into this beautiful tech.  (If not scrap it all together! That would be ideal.) 

 

 

Anyway, yey for you guys across the pond, hope this comes to fruition for yous. 

[Volbet]

7 minutes ago, Memories4K said:

Wasn't it proven to be a stupid idea despite how cool it sounds?

Pretty much, yeah.

 

[goodtofufriday]

9 hours ago, zMeul said:

reality means feasible, actually achievable - Hyperloop is utter fantasy

Wont ever get there until we try and figure out what needs to be made to make it happen. 

 

A smart phone was utter fantasy 40 years ago. A device that fits in your hand that can instantly access the world's knowledge base and communicate to anyone anywhere. 

[cj09beira]

6 minutes ago, goodtofufriday said:

Wont ever get there until we try and figure out what needs to be made to make it happen. 

 

A smart phone was utter fantasy 40 years ago. A device that fits in your hand that can instantly access the world's knowledge base and communicate to anyone anywhere. 

there are 2 types of fantasy, one where it needs new tech such as can we travel at the speed of light, can cars fly, other is where independent of tech, its a stupid idea, this is one of those cases, this is worse than airplanes level of danger (even lower external atmosfere) but without the 10km of distance to the soil that allows problems to be solved, if there is a fail on the exterior shell, you are ded if the fail is in the pod you are dead, imagine a train doing 600km/h hiting a wall of air/ debry from the outside wall, 

maybe you can relieve the danger from outside layer damage, by having large "valves" (a giant piece of steel that blocks the tunnel coming from the sides) but even then you would need a lot of them per mile and you would still need to stop the train super fast, and even then if the damage is a bit in front of the pod you cant close the valves.

 

[goodtofufriday]

2 minutes ago, cj09beira said:

there are 2 types of fantasy, one where it needs new tech such as can we travel at the speed of light, can cars fly, other is where independent of tech, its a stupid idea, this is one of those cases, this is worse than airplanes level of danger (even lower external atmosfere) but without the 10km of distance to the soil that allows problems to be solved, if there is a fail on the exterior shell, you are ded if the fail is in the pod you are dead, imagine a train doing 600km/h hiting a wall of air/ debry from the outside wall, 

maybe you can relieve the danger from outside layer damage, by having large "valves" (a giant piece of steel that blocks the tunnel coming from the sides) but even then you would need a lot of them per mile and you would still need to stop the train super fast, and even then if the damage is a bit in front of the pod you cant close the valves.

 

Saw the video. Im still under the impression that to say its impossible isnt fair. Hell the failures of trying can result in a new methodology or new tech that can be used elsewhere. 

The impracticallity of flyimg was solved by numerous failures over centuries. 

[cj09beira]

Just now, goodtofufriday said:

Saw the video. Im still under the impression that to say its impossible isnt fair. Hell the failures of trying can result in a new methodology or new tech that can be used elsewhere. 

The impracticallity of flyimg was solved by numerous failures over centuries. 

my point is that its super hard to make safe, and if someone wants to destroy it, they could way to easily

[Juanitology]

5 hours ago, KE2012 said:

Meanwhile over here in the UK, we're only paying £450 MILLION per mile for a few extra minutes cut off a journey. I'd much rather put the 100 Billion we are investing in HS2 into this beautiful tech.  (If not scrap it all together! That would be ideal.) 

 

 

Anyway, yey for you guys across the pond, hope this comes to fruition for yous. 

100 billion? holy shit that's a lot of pictures of the queen, how much area would all those bills cover?

[NumLock21]

Elon is like 100 years too late on it.

 

Hyperloop!

 

 

[MadyTehWolfie]

Ew public transport

[NumLock21]

46 minutes ago, MadyTehWolfie said:

Ew public transport

Well, you can be the chauffeur, for those that don't like public transport!

 

[Misanthrope]

"A new era" I thought we had this for a while in Japan though

[divito]

Given the specifics involved in the requirements for it to function as intended, it will be quite an ordeal. I'm also curious how earthquake consideration affects any potential such hyperloop routes.