Posted on 12/18/2014 9:56:26 AM PST by ConservativeInPA
PLAYA VISTA (CBSLA.com) It takes about six hours to drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco depending on your speed and more than an hour to fly.
But in the future, the trip may take a matter of minutes.
Designers of the speed tube called Hyperloop say they are one step closer to making that happen.
Tesla founder Elon Musk says the technology is being developed with the help of about 25 UCLA graduate architecture students at a facility in Playa Vista.
Hyperloop has teamed up with the students to create the tube technology, designed to connect cities less than 300 miles apart.
(Excerpt) Read more at losangeles.cbslocal.com ...
Even flying isn't practical, you pay to park at home airport, and have to rent a car in San Francisco plus having to put up with the airline schedule.
out of the pan, into the fire?
Or you could just think about BART.
What a target for the religion of peace!
Almost as cool of a target for the ROP as a nanotube space elevator.
The last time I rode a train it stopped more times than a Grey Hound bus, in fact we often stopped near a bus terminal where you could get off and buy food that they no longer carried on the train.(1963)
WE have a spiffy newish subway here in LA. Unused by me.
Don’t blame you. Who needs the Hill St. Blues ?
: )
BART trains top out at 80 mph.
This train will go more like 800 mph to make the trip in 30 minutes, allowing for acceleration and deceleration.
>> “BART trains top out at 80 mph.” <<
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And often derail at 15 - 20 MPH!
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So do you have to clean the crushed bodies off the back and front of the cars periodically?
How many G’s does this thing pull accellerating/decellerating?
Now, if you’re going from nowhere to nowhere, you can do it faster than before.
Until there’s another annual California earthquake, that is.
This is a pipe dream.
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