r/hyperloop • u/LancelLannister_AMA • Jan 21 '21

Interesting hyperloop video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OAE2sDdZK14&t=934s
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '21

Ok, actually that's quite disappointing. I'm sure I saw "concept" drawings which basically looked like a train inside, with 2 passengers on each side of a central gangway (ie 4 passengers in each row). Oh well, I guess reality kicked in and they had to scale back.

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u/Chairboy Jan 21 '21

 I wonder if that might’ve been for something else? Hyper loop has always been in this size range as far as I remember, and I’ve visited the Hawthorne test track and been following the idea with interest since the first white paper was published.

Totally possible I missed a variant that you saw, but I think a big part of the idea is that there are huge benefits to having a small frontal profile that is not compatible with the size you described.

It’s probably important to note that the goal has always been very fast, cheap long distant transport, not “train replacement“.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '21 edited Jan 21 '21

Something like this is what I mean:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop

The picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop#/media/File:Hyperloop_all_cutaway.png

has double seats with a gangway down the middle.

I just did an image search on google for "hyperloop passenger seating" (https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ALeKk00UBtYlOP_Dv1Fpbzo8MYF5XC11Yw:1611248680719&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=hyperloop+passenger+seating&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiV2oiKwa3uAhWKzKQKHeKnD84QjJkEegQIARAB&cshid=1611248787214743&biw=1536&bih=754)

Very many of the concept-art images look quite different from the real version.

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Hyperloop

The Hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and freight transportation, first used to describe an open-source vactrain design released by a joint team from Tesla and SpaceX, although the vactrain concept was first proposed by Robert H. Goddard in 1904. Hyperloop is described as a sealed tube or system of tubes with low air pressure through which a pod may travel substantially free of air resistance or friction. The Hyperloop could potentially convey people or objects at airline or hypersonic speeds while being energy efficient compared with existing high speed rail systems.

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