“What we’re seeing right now is what I saw in 1996,” said Mr. Lloyd, a former president of sales and development at Cisco. “We all had I.P. routers and everything was done a certain way. At Cisco, we said, ‘You can carry that over the Internet,’ and everyone said, ‘No.’ But those high-speed networks made the Internet possible.” Hyperloop, he said, “will do to the physical world what the Internet did to the digital one.” — Allison Arieff – nytimes.com
Allison Arieff (editorial director at SPUR and former Dry Futures judge) has some questions for Hyperloop One (formerly Hyperloop Technologies) after a propulsion test demonstration in the Nevada desert. While the company has managed remarkably fast developments in its tube technology for such high-speeds as the Hyperloop demands, it's nowhere near reality – and Arieff clearly articulates the (many) remaining concerns of such technology, after mere feasibility.
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Transportation better get used to disappointment.
Have these techies ever considered the limitations of the human body? I have the feeling that biology will be a bigger challenge to overcome than any engineering obstacle they may encounter.
Wiggin - WSJ article: “There was some wonderful stuff about [railway trains] too in the U.S., that women’s bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour. Our uteruses would fly out of our bodies as they were accelerated to that speed.”
This is wonderful stuff, another example of California thinking that is not limited by what was, or is. I would love to be one of the first humans to ride in one of these!
It is always the crazy people that drag the rest of us into the future.
^^Far from being concerned about uteruses, and social controls... In a closed, windowless environment, which the hyperloop has been represented as, motion sickness will be a very real issue. VR has had this problem, which is partially to blame for the 20 year purgatory the technology had been in until recently, and they're still working out the kinks in that regard.
"...California thinking that is not limited by what was, or is."
like water?
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