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God damn it, Elon! It looks amazing but the logistics are just not adding up! 2-minute departure time scales? Good luck getting the future Hyperloop TSA to do that.

But, the numbers don't quite crunch for this to be a legitimate business (unless we are talking no returns for 25 years charging customers an average of 1500-3000 dollars per ride .. but the demand is not there for those prices).

Idea is awesome .. yes! Viable ... yes, yes!! A business ... idk. :(




Planes take off from runways every minute or two.

Vehicle loading and unloading terminals can fan out from the automated system that loads them and unloads them from the actual Tube.


From memory the departure time scales on the shinkansen are smaller than this...about 90 seconds IIRR.




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