- cross-posted to:
- cars@lemmy.world
- technology@lemmy.zip
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- cars@lemmy.world
- technology@lemmy.zip
- technology@beehaw.org
The hyperloop is dead for real this time::Hyperloop One is shutting down its operations. The company was founded in 2014 promising pods that would carry passengers at airline speeds through nearly airless tubes. Turns out, it wasn’t really viable.
Before everyone gets ahead of themselves like in the last thread on this, this is not a Musk company. This is a separate startup based on the same (dumb) idea, that was later bought by Richard Branson’s Virgin. It’s IP is going to the Dubai company that is it’s biggest investor, so I’m sure they’ll actually build one with slave labor and all that.
Nobody is ever going to build one that works anyway.
It might work almost once
Unless they harness my lead at work’s ability to suck they’ll never get enough vac.
I feel personally attacked 🥲