Martin Bond
Sep 7, 2018 · 1 min read

The technical challenges of the Hyperloop are extremely daunting. To maintain a vacuum in a tube hundreds of miles long is very difficult. In addition, any failure of the tube would be catastrophic, and this in a country where high power guns with ammunition capable of piercing armour are generally available. The forces that would be unleashed would be huge, even a small hole would cause immediate general failure of the tube. The air would rush in with at least double the force of a hurricane and slam into any vehicle in transit, molding it into a tube shape projectile that would smash into the next vehicle in the tube at high speed, and so on. I suspect what scuppered the Hyperloop was the safety case.

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