• sugar_in_your_tea
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, what happened to transit pneumatic tubes? I feel like hyperloop was supposed to be close to that, but that never happened.

    Make it an attraction, I’ll ride it.

    • Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      The Hyperloop was very successful, it prevented billions of dollars of investment in mass transit, then evaporated before it could reduce the market for cars.

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        3 months ago

        “grisly results”. Are you sure? I think the pressure failure of the Titan submarine was closer to “grisly”. Transit tube failure scores lower on the pressure failure scale. /jk