The hyperloop is dead for real this time::Hyperloop One is shutting down its operations. The company was founded in 2014 promising pods that would carry passengers at airline speeds through nearly airless tubes. Turns out, it wasn’t really viable.
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Yeah. It was always such a weird idea.
My brother worked at Virgin Hyperloop, and I think pretty much everyone there felt similarly that building trains of any kind was a worthwhile ambition, even if this particular implementation was a quixotic and unrealistic approach to high-speed rail development. But you take work where you find it. Hopefully the Brightline trains will demonstrate that a more conventional approach just makes more sense, and lead to more tried-and-tested rail projects.
