As you all might know, Elon Musk has announced he has 'verbal agreement' to build a New York-Washington DC hyperloop line, and he also wants to build (the original plan) Los Angeles - San Francisco.
It should be well more cost effective than other transport modes. However,
The Guardian has an article about it which states it is an infant technology. I think so as well.
The
Thunderf00t Youtube channel is also very (to my opinion too) sceptical.
Building a 600km long vacuum pipe of 2m diameter and shooting manned pods at 1000km/h through it requires very strict safety requirements, particularly in an earthquake location like California. A few mm offset would result in a disaster as the pods move only a few millimeters from the tube wall.
This challenge is not boring at all as the name of the Boring company says (what a strange name ??).
I only believe in it for cargo in non-seismic areas like Sydney-(Canberra)- Melbourne.
What are your opinions ?