Hyperloop in 2023: Where Are They Now?

And I've already banned the first person getting triggered by my mention of Brno's treatment of Roma. Keep it up! I like to keep my comment section's average IQ high.

Adam, you are too harsh on HyperloopTT. You act like they haven't accomplished anything in a decade, when in reality they've managed to overpay their executives for 10 years while saving money by not building anything more than an empty tube. An impressive feat.

I was “head of propulsion” in a university Hyperloop team. I started as a bright-eyed child hoping to revolutionise transport, then quickly came to the conclusion that trains are better when we just reinvented maglev.. It did look good on my cv tho, I’m glad my employer doesn’t watch your channel!

We tried an incredibly simple model hyperloop for a high school project. Very early on we changed our presentation from "the inevitable hyperloop future" to a laundry list of issues. Just use trains. They work at near every scale. The infrastructure and technology is there. It doesn't require a fragile and hostile artificial environment. And they go CHOO CHOO.

Give him a break, he's probably thinking up super epic names for his army of children.

"This idea from 1888 was first conceived by Elon musk in 2012" Just gonna let that sentence stand in its own, quality subtle writing

It's almost like good ideas (trains and public transport) stand on their own, without the need for logical fallacies, censorship, or corruption.

For all the Ukrainian viewers out there: remember how our former minister of transport, Omelian, signed some goofy documents with Hyperloop TT and promised to build a functioning line by 2023? He also stated that "hyperloop returns its investment in 12 year; a railroad — never". When questioned about the failure to even build a proof-of-concept test chamber in Dnipro, he said he wanted "to give the Ukrainians a dream". Is it a coincidence that stupid and corrupt people have been always falling in with Musk's shitty "ideas" so well?

Australia has been kicking around the idea of high speed rail between east coast capitals for decades. This leaves a great opportunity for someone to suggest a Hyperloop instead, get around $200m in feasibility funding and then present a length of garden hose with a couple of marbles before pissing off to the Bahamas for a well earned rest.

How on Earth did a credit-buying, blood-emerald-mine-heir non-inventor convince so many people he was going to save humanity

the great irony is the hyperloop track in LV has been dismantled to make room for a railway.

I'm so happy you talked about Musk's admission of disrupting the California high speed rail project

Turning the journey from LA to SF into a 3 hour train ride sounds awesome and I am actually mad that Elon tried to fuck up such a cool thing. Thank God the rail project survived.

I have a brilliant idea for a hyperloop transport innovation! 1. Design the hyperloop 2. Remove the tube and vacuum to cut expense 3. Add multiple carts for efficiency 4. Add a powerful pushing hyperloopcar for pushing and pulling a chain of hyperloop “nodes” 5. Put this chain of hyperloop nodes on rails with steel wheels, again cost reduction and longevity 6. Make the hyperloop* chains powered by the rails or a continuous source of energy 7. There, you can put it above amd bellow the ground, and can be used for both freight and people! Seems like a brilliant idea

I study at TU Delft, and not even the members of the hyper loop team believe in the hyper loop. I know somebody who went to the team interview, told them the hyper loop would never work, and they still hired him. Also as a side note, it’s funny to see that the company with the most progress is a university team which had a fully built prototype pod as well as a stretch of track in the middle of campus.

A company in Alberta, Canada managed to grift 500 million dollars from the provincial government to start work on a hyperloop project between our major cities. Im hopeful though. Obviously a hyperloop is stupid, but the cities are in a relatively straight line. If they actually manage to get some land acquisition and right of ways, maybe when the project fails someone can pick up where they left off and build a normal fucking train

I think this is actually rather impressive. Instead of disappointing us by doing nothing, some of the companies listed disappointed us by actually doing something. They put in the effort to be as pathetic as they could be, so that we could be as disappointed in them as we now are.

Who could have thunk that combining the drawbacks of trains, space travel and vacuum cleaners would not yield a viable system of mass transportation.

You have to admit CGI has come a long way in a short time, though.

The Onion already did this over 10 years ago in their video "Obama to replace high speed rail with high speed bus" except arguably better since its a bus and not a single car. Again its astounding how much they get right.