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Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit (www.bloomberg.com)
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Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit::The company is selling assets, laying off remaining employees.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And even maglev is barely done because it's so expensive to build. Hyperloop is wrapping that same maglev train into a tube that should maintain a vacuum for kms on end, and pretty much every failure mode would end up being genuinely catastrophic.

[–] kittyjynx@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Plus you would have to armor the whole thing and spend a bunch on security because one guy with a .50 rifle or some explosives could destroy a whole section and close the whole thing by punching one hole in it.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago

Haha, yeah. Remember the chaos when militia guys started shooting at transformers in substations? Every hick with a gun would be shooting at it just to shut it down.