> The logistics of that are too massive. You’re talking about rebuilding the entire freeway system.
Nahh, not the entire freeway system. the hyperloop would run from downtown to downtown (theoretically) and the local commuting would go over the same old roads.
So, just the long distance jumps on a separate line. You could still drive it on the interstate, it would just take longer.
A parallel road has even bigger problems, not the least of which being that where the freeway is is probably the best place for a freeway. Trying to make another one involves a lot of eminent domain, even on short hops between big cities (problem with big cities, lots of people own stuff for lots of miles around them), the court battles alone would keep that project on the shelf for decades.
That’s one of those ideas where the technical part is the easy part, honestly we could do it now, we could have done it with the first electric car. It’s the logistics that will block it.