Is Elon Musk Living In FANTASY Land About His Hyperloop Project OR Is It The Next-gen Way Of Transportation?

Elon Musk just tweeted that his Boring Company tunnel project has received “verbal [government] approval” to build a hyperloop connecting New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, DC.

While we work to verify his claim, Musk is continuing to tweet more details about the project. The hyperloop, an ultrafast method of travel first developed by Musk in 2013, would only take 29 minutes to travel between New York City and DC, he claims. And it would feature “up to a dozen or more” access points via elevator in each city.

Musk famously released his hyperloop concept as an open-source white paper in 2013, arguing that he was too busy with his companies Tesla and SpaceX to devote energy to it. Since then, Musk has grown increasingly frustrated with surface-level transportation, as evidenced by his tunnel project dubbed the Boring Company...

SanJoseDriver - 7/21/2017 1:18:06 PM

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If he can pull it off everyone wins except for existing air and rail industries. I'm pretty sick of traffic and self driving cars will bring more, not less traffic. At least someone is at least trying to seriously address this issue, even if it is a longshot.

MDarringer - 7/21/2017 3:05:07 PM

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And he gets points for going about it in the most idiotic way as well.

HenryN - 7/21/2017 3:21:03 PM

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Without a gutsy guy like Musk, who has the bone to start with projects like that ? Other than PayPal, everything he has done has been grandiose and they turn out quite right (Tesla cars, SpaceX) changing the games for good. Who would have thought the tiny SpaceX single-handedly challenged the US space industry and coming out victorious.

Many studies assigned the cost of traffic jams to be in the billions due to lost productivity, extra pollution and its associated health cost, plus the detrimental effect to the drivers due to chronic physical and mental stress. These projects should be a part of the infrastructure package the US sorely needs.

MDarringer - 7/21/2017 4:27:50 PM

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@HenryN The problem is that on freeways the majority of the congestion is people going to and from work. At work, they log onto a computer to do their work, but they could just as easily stay home and do the same work. So, instead of some emperor's-new-clothes boondoggle, why not just do something simple and expedient?

Tesla hasn't turned out "quite right" given that it can't make money and is beholden to taxpayers to stay afloat.

SpaceX? Now that's funny.

SanJoseDriver - 7/21/2017 9:04:00 PM

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What is your simple and expedient idea to solve the world's traffic issues? If there was one, I'm pretty sure it would have been implemented by now. I'm guessing you don't live in a city with a ton of traffic =)

MDarringer - 7/21/2017 9:58:11 PM

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@SanJoseDriver You should read what people write before you spew. By the simple expedient of decentralizing the work environment, millions of cars would no longer be in the commute.

If a person is driving to work to log onto a computer to accomplish work tasks, that person could just as easily log in from home or Starbucks or...

I do not live in a city with ridiculous congestion, but I drive the 405 through LA at least once a week.

SanJoseDriver - 7/26/2017 11:14:14 PM

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Most jobs still require face-to-face collaboration. Besides, I think it will be easier to build tunnels between where people want to live/work than to get people to change where they want to live/work.

carloslassiter - 7/21/2017 7:29:17 PM

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So here we have a hack who works in a car dealership telling us that Elon Musk is an "idiot".

For the record, Darringer also thought Leonardo DiVinci was a "boob", and Einstein was a "dingleberry".

MDarringer - 7/21/2017 8:45:27 PM

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Admit it, Carlos. You have the hots for me. You clearly spend lots of time thinking about me. I'm so touched.