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[ijmorlan]

“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.

And "I" am replying to your snarky comment that is baseless and without faces and 100% opinionated.

And no it's not really a test track because it will be commercially available for people to use by the time of 2020 expo.

So again, false claims with no evidential basis to back it up.

Get back to me when I can fly to Dubai, buy a ticket, and ride in a HyperLoop which is long enough for them to have to have figured out the thermal expansion issue with the pipe. That’s not a 10km test track. Which I also don’t expect to be opening to the general public in the next year, but maybe I’ll be wrong about that.