Elon Musk

so is this supposed to replace driving or flying or both? because even if the cost is somewhat lower than flying it seems like the capacity would not be nearly enough to make any sense at all? like, a detachable quad chairlift moves like 2400 ppl/hr.

maybe la-sf needs a subsonic detachable quad.

― you're better off in a supersonic jet (Hunt3r), Tuesday, August 13, 2013 4:13 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait what

Will these things have bathrooms?

yeah, but don't flush

the whole experience is like being flushed amirite

I assume it would primarily replace flying plus some driving and rail. According to my quick googling, 7 mil per year is way more people than make the flight every year.

if he could actually make a system that would take people between SF & LA in a half hour for only $20, and he's not going to spend all of his energy on that then he's a dick.

yeah, i think the flight figure is ~6.x mil. still, that sounds very inflated. it assumes 840 ppl/hour- 24 hours a day. no downtime? no maintenance time? i have no idea how many ppl drive it/day, and part of the traffic will transfer from there. if it's truly like $50/30 minutes, many more people will start to do it.

but i think it's a cool concept, hope it works someday.

i mean, the hyperloop capacity sounds inflated.

you could always build a second parallel tube amirite

yeah but I think the total flight numbers are only like 1.x million

there are probably at least a million people each day commuting into LA and SF combined right? an affordable half hour hyperloop trip between the two (not to mention connectors to other less expensive cities) would lead to a lot more commuters.

is there space for segways in it?

driving segways into the hyperloop with my google glasses

I think it's very healthy to be skeptical of all new technologies. The idea is not to shot down anything new for the sake of it, but to remain cautious of the implications and in this specific case, the feasibility of the new technology.

there are probably at least a million people each day commuting into LA and SF combined right? an affordable half hour hyperloop trip between the two (not to mention connectors to other less expensive cities) would lead to a lot more commuters.

― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 5:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You mean people actually living in one and working in the other on a daily basis? I doubt it, only because both are such expensive cities, so the main reason to choose living in one and working in the other would be taste. The commuters from the valley etc aren't going to pack up and move to SF just because they can tube to work.

well it opens up the possibility. the valley is probably way cheaper than anywhere in the bay area, so if somebody there gets a job in San Jose and they can get there in almost the same amount of time it takes to drive downtown, then why not?

HOOS next aka won't get steened again (Hurting 2)
Posted: August 13, 2013, 7:17:15 PM
This sounds neat. Anyone speculating as to whether it will work or not right now is completely full of shit -- you have nothing to base your opinion on yet.

where as yr opinion is based on the fact that it sounds neat lol

lasertrain sounds neater, so basically musk can gobble these

i'm not speculating as to whether it will actually work

there's way neater completely untested ideas out there

having a press conference to present a scifi idea is what people are making fun of

he even pretends to know how much it will cost

lol

i blame snowden

Guys, I have this awesome idea and am pretty sure I can put one in every major airport for like $40-50 tops.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01729/star_1729224c.jpg

i already made that joek

HYPERCUBE

funny how billionaires always end up in hubris

i've drawn a big elastic band that will be able to shoot people across country at Mach 4 let's do this

there's way neater completely untested ideas out there

― lag∞n, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 11:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like what

who the hell is this Elon Musk guy to estimate the cost of an engineering project

he's no ilxor that's for sure

well i haven't FP'd him yet so

oooh i bet he could come up with a better system than fp

like it would only take like 2, 3 tops to ban a fucker

say what you want about this guy, at least he made the hyperloops run on time

who the hell is this Elon Musk guy to estimate the cost of an engineering project

admittedly it's impressive that he's had success in software, auto manufacturing, and aerospace, but isn't a massive public works project like this a different thing altogether?

Don't forget solar.

I think it was entirely reasonable for him to give a cost estimate at this press conference xp

i'm not sure the tesla and space x count as engineering triumphs

dude is a genius entrepreneur, not a genius engineer

well i guess space x is pretty cool but not cheaper or better than nasa, the tesla is like 100k

I think it was entirely reasonable for him to give a cost estimate at this press conference xp

I think it's pretty reasonable to be skeptical of a figure that's almost 1/10th of what's being spent on actual proven existing technology.

Well ya thats why he thinks his idea is better

Cracking up at article that bolstered dudes cred with "Tony stark is partially based on him in the popular im movies!"

Well ya thats why he thinks his idea is better

yeah, make believe ideas do tend to be better and cheaper than messy reality.

Wwtsd

wtsiw

well i guess space x is pretty cool but not cheaper or better than nasa, the tesla is like 100k

Actually SpaceX is considerably cheaper than NASA. NASA even agrees: http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/586023main_8-3-11_NAFCOM.pdf

that's because they're organizationally leaner, not because they've invented a cheaper spacecraft