IIRC, the "first Cybertruck" has been shutting down assembly lines recently due to lagging sales...
NYC to London tunnel
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IIRC, the "first Cybertruck" has been shutting down assembly lines recently due to lagging sales...
Could be a new disaster movie franchise like the old “Airport” movies.
My favorite was the one where the plane sunk to the bottom of ocean and the navy rescued most of the passengers.
My favorite was the one where the plane sunk to the bottom of ocean and the navy rescued most of the passengers.
I doubt the price of a ticket will be like jumping on the subway
As I've posted several times, you do not need a "hyperloop tunnel" to make a serious economic impact on the US economy.
Set up a "tube" that runs along existing interstate corridors (above ground) that you can ship 2'x2' or 3'x3' "boxes" in between depots hundreds of miles apart. Like the vacuum tube systems hospitals use for samples, etc. Ship stuff through that at 500-600 mph (faster than air travel) and have it all bar-code automated so that things branch off to a local depot when the code scan tells the system that's the "mailbox" the package goes to.
You'll:
Big infrastructure cost, but it'd pay for itself in a decade or so w/ far cheaper and faster shipping. Minimal "tunneling" needed for most areas. Greatest challenge is making straight lines of tube w/ minimal curvature for the speeds you want to ship at. You'd have to slow things down where you have to make 'corners'. But entirely feasible and high ROI over the long term.
Set up a "tube" that runs along existing interstate corridors (above ground) that you can ship 2'x2' or 3'x3' "boxes" in between depots hundreds of miles apart. Like the vacuum tube systems hospitals use for samples, etc. Ship stuff through that at 500-600 mph (faster than air travel) and have it all bar-code automated so that things branch off to a local depot when the code scan tells the system that's the "mailbox" the package goes to.
You'll:
- eliminate a significant fraction of long-haul truck transport
- reduce semi traffic on freeways, extending their lifespans by a lot
- Get far faster and cheaper transit for small to medium sized packages and mail
- Have perishables like seafood you can ship from coasts to any city in the US in a couple hours
- Be able to de-carbonize much of the economy by using EVs for "last mile" transit that only needs to move things the last 50 or so miles, max
Big infrastructure cost, but it'd pay for itself in a decade or so w/ far cheaper and faster shipping. Minimal "tunneling" needed for most areas. Greatest challenge is making straight lines of tube w/ minimal curvature for the speeds you want to ship at. You'd have to slow things down where you have to make 'corners'. But entirely feasible and high ROI over the long term.
I’ve talked about something very similar when the whiskey starts flowing and my friends and I opine on the next big thing. It’s kind of crazy, but kind of not! Let’s form an alliance.
Star Trek has rarely steered us wrong. Hand held communicators. Some of the medical tech and nano stuff. Time travel. Klingons. It’s all there…
If they ever figured out how to go to the airport, stand on a disk and in minutes arrive in Bora Bora that would be amazing. But, no way in hell I'd test the beta version.
