If you thought highspeed rail was costly, Get a new calculator or revert to RPN for this baby!
And how many engines and cabooses needed to pick up at a station every 45 seconds??? Costs? To the moon Alice, to the moon.(is it OK to say to the moon?)
Ahlborn said about 100 capsules would be needed to operate a line like one from Los Angeles to San Francisco, capable of departures as frequently as 45 seconds apart. He said the capsule was designed for speeds up to 750 mph, but "realistically" would operate at slower speeds, at least initially.
Capsule built, nowhere to go. Read about it last night. The technology does not exist yet in many areas so there is no tube, no stations, nowhere to go. Not even a demonstration line even at Disney or anywhere. But, hey, they got a fancy capsule.
Not to mention what possibly could happen if a housefly gets into the test capsule with the scientist testing it on himself.
Your tax dollars at work again.
at 45 seconds per arrival and departure, I can see lots of blood from squished and mangled commuters as they push and shove to get aboard a departing pod ...
Yea right, in earthquake prone California I want to be stuck in a metal capsule in a tube deep underground? NOT.
What are the effects of the shock wave of breaking the sound barrier in such a confined tube?