Finally everyone sees the hyperloop as a massive Elmo grift.
They just opened the Brightline connection between Orlando and Miami. It’s cool that we have a rail connection now but for my girlfriend and I to go down it would be $300 round trip. And it would take just as long to drive. It’s really not very “high speed” at all. Maybe compared to Amtrak.
Brightline is also building what it calls “the nation’s first true high-speed rail network” between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. That project received $3 billion of the funding recently announced by the Biden administration, and is expected to break ground in early 2024.
Oh for FUCKS sake
I don’t see the issue?
I think it might be my poor reading comprehension, but it sounded like brightline was some hyperloop nonsense that was getting federal funding
Nope, they’re for real!
for rail!*
I really, really think high-speed rail is the wrong direction to take. I’m very much in the “maglev” camp
See, I’m more of a teleporter guy myself
I too am for murdering the original.
Difference is that there are multiple working Maglevs around the world right now (which you can actually ride)
Yes. Six of them. Only one of which exceeds 150km/h in speed and none of which exceeds 30km in length. So impressive and totally better than high speed rail that routinely exceeds 250km/h over distances measured in hundreds to thousands of km.
Maglevs are economically unviable in the absence of room temperature superconductors. So being in the “sci-fi” camp isn’t really the flex you think it is.
The Shanghai Maglev train has a top speed of 190 mph and is in active daily use. Please tell me more from your “research” how it is unviable despite already existing in one of the densest metro regions in the world
Read this, maybe you’ll learn something:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev
It’s far more expensive than traditional rail. You can get pretty high speeds with traditional rail too, in western Europe there are trains reaching 300-350 km/h.
