Turns out the real hyperloop was the friends we made along the way.

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.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    10 months ago

    Yes, it’s dead this time too, as it was all the other times it was mentioned, and also when it was announced.
    Hyperloop was a scam from the beginning, it never had a chance of succeeding, even if it wasn’t a scam.
    So Yes, it is really really dead now, and it always was.
    It was literally a pipedream.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      15·
      10 months ago

      I remember hearing about it in a super slick video posted by the yt channel ColdFusion, it went on an on about how Elon was an entrepeneur, but just regurgitated the same marketing crap that was shoved out from Musk.

      I also remember the Virgin Hyperloop presentation where and older speaker spoke about how the hyperloop was going to be like the internet, routing pods like packets in a network.

      It allways sounded dumb, back when I first heard about it, and all the times since.

      Invest in rail, not idiotic gadget bahns…