Shocking news! In an incredible breakthrough for American mass-transit engineering, the transportation technology company Virgin Hyperloop this past weekend successfully moved two people 500 meters across the barren Las Vegas desert at a top speed of just over 100 mph, setting a new world record for the absolute most pitiful thing anyone not named “Elon […]

It's a race to the bottom with these 'not-trains'.

Seriously, just build trains.

  • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I love how the entire train-adjacent world is so profoundly exhausted and fed up with the hyperloop that the articles and videos produced are all the equivalent of shouting "TRAINS ALREADY EXIST YOU FUCKS" to what is essentially the void, because all those same articles and videos already acknowledge that the reason why the hyperloop is so popular is exactly the reason why they'll never build trains.