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
    59·
    1 year 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
      17·
      1 year 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…

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        1 year ago

        I would be very skeptical about a channel that called itself ColdFusion. Like I’d expect it to represent about zero critical thinking skills.
        Branson wants to be on the edge too, trying to catch the next big thing. Mostly copying what others are doing. He is just a manchild, using his ressources as toys, seemingly based on very little knowledge. Don’t expect to much from him either. At least Branson doesn’t seem repulsive like Musk, but he is for sure no tech genius. Although he may be good at running a business in an area he understands.