[AU72]

Sounds great if he’s putting in his own money.

[glorgau]

He has the kind of ideas that America should be shooting for. Not some massively expensive incremental improvement on 150 year old technology.

[Fresh Wind]

The capsules, mounted above the ground on columns 50 to 100 yards apart would hurtle through tubes in a complete vacuum on small cushions of air accelerated by electrical motors, solar panels and kinetic energy.

Good Lord, who writes this garbage?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

My first question is “why?”. What is the public benefit?

Reality says there are, probably, less than 10,000 individuals that need to travel this route in this time frame in any given week; probably hundreds in any specific day.

The welfare queens in LA aren’t traveling to SF on a consistent basis and certainly won’t pay to get there any faster when they do make the trip.

The advancement of velocity-technology is cool but it takes a large amount of time and investment to make it accessible to the masses. Might we want to take a lesson from the Concorde? Hows that working out?

[Izzy Dunne]

hurtle through tubes in a complete vacuum on small cushions of air

I forget; what does "complete vacuum" mean again?

[camle]

this is little more than the fantasies of someone who has spent too much time reading cheap science fiction books. the infrastructure alone would bankrupt anybody.
like the ‘dyson sphere’ concept some sci fi writer dreamed up. fantasy navel gazing.
can you say ‘pipe dream’?

[IMR 4350]

A 300 mile elevated pipeline big enough to run a small train through it, say 9 to 10 feet in diameter.

That ought to be cheap.

[citizen]

The car paint and interiors will be green so all this will be paid for by.....you in Stimulus #XI.

Or maybe paid by Uncle Ben’s funny money.

[Veto!]

Excellent, send me a ticket.

My best time driving from downtown San Francisco to Santa Monica was just under 5 hours.

[NonValueAdded]

Radio traffic transcript:

Control center

Looks like the 10:04 came to a sudden stop at reference point 472-Charlie. The detection systems failed to note the stoppage. All departures from 10:06 through 11:05 are TC'ed.

10-4. Dispatching cleanup crews. Control center out.

Hey Sam, what does TC mean? It means "trash compacted," Willie.

[GreenHornet]

Design still in its infancy Though, the blue print of the Hyperloop has been conceptualized by about a dozen engineers from SpaceX and Tesla, the design is still in its infancy.

- Written by the Department of Redundancy Department.

[bgill]

A crash would be hugh and series!

[mosesdapoet]

A Popular Mechanics Post WWII Future edition came up with this only it suggested tunnels not tubes don’t recall the year. I also if I recall properly the writer also suggested low pressure. I think it was done twice that edition suggested maglev drive.

[Kickass Conservative]

Checked out the PDF. Didn’t see an Bathroom or Access for the Handicapped on those Pod things in his proposal.

Looks like a ride at Disneyland to me.

[Wuli]

if him and others want to do it on their dime, fine - just leave the taxpayers out of it, both for construction and for operation

[Category Four]

Pipe dream, I'm sure (no pun intended) ... but even so, am I the only one who had a Donald Fagen moment as a result?