09-07-2019, 10:42 AM
(09-07-2019, 06:30 AM)moe242324 Wrote:(09-06-2019, 10:44 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Very amusing. At most they will have a test track. The idea that a new engineering technology will go from starting construction to taking passengers in less time than our perfectly routine LRT took to be constructed is absurd. There is a reason why vacuum trains haven’t gone anywhere in the over 100 years since the concept was first explored.
But that’s Dubai. The comment to which I was responding was about Ontario, where I don’t think anybody has even pretended to propose a HyperLoop system. That’s why I asked if they meant HSR, which the previous Liberal government claimed to be working on, and had actually done some study work on. Although I don’t recall hearing a specific announcement that Ford or the Conservatives had cancelled it, it’s at least reasonable to talk about them cancelling it. By contrast, as far as I know it’s impossible for Ford to cancel HyperLoop, because the Ontario government is not involved in HyperLoop.
I was not referring to Ontario at all, you said it was a publicity scheme by Elon Musk which is not true at all. And no it’s not a test track. The first phase (10km) in Dubai is estimated to be complete by next year...
“I”? You are moe242324. I was responding to Momo26, who said “The hyper loop looks scrapped all together under the ford government government”. The main point I was making was that Ford may have cancelled High Speed Rail, which was in the early stages of possibly going somewhere under the previous government, but Ford definitely hasn’t cancelled HyperLoop, which to my knowledge has not been even semi-seriously discussed here in Ontario. I threw in a snarky comment, which I believe will be proven correct, about HyperLoop, but the main point was about confusion between HSR and HyperLoop.
Even if it opens to the public in the next year or two, which I doubt, for HyperLoop 10km is a test track. HyperLoop is supposed to be a high-speed service, which given the requirements for and practical limits on acceleration, requires long distances between stops.
Also, Elon Musk is well known for throwing out publicity stuff. Loop is another example, which has been progressively (and predictably) watered down so that it’s now just a regular car driving in a tunnel without any of the provisions for emergency exits, etc., which would be required for a real system.
It’s an interesting contrast. On the one hand, he put together the SpaceX team, which really is achieving some amazing things, not to mention Tesla and other businesses; and on the other hand, he keeps throwing off crazy ideas on absurd timelines.