I really hope fewer people are falling for his BS this time around. We already have self driving taxis in prototype that are more practical. (and yet still not practical. )

And ... public transit is awesome and could benefit from modernization and love. Fix the elevators and the NYC subway would be space age.

@smellsofbikes

@johntimaeus

If they do induction charging there will need to be a thing that lowers the coils onto the charging pad to get it close enough to not waste tons and tons of power.

And if you are going to do all that why not just plug the damn thing in and have almost no loss?

@johntimaeus

I’m curious what kind of strength magnetic field would be generated for charging at that scale too. Would that be unsafe for people with ferrous implants or devices?

Maybe it’s fine, I genuinely don’t know.

@CliftonR @amsomniac

He's making the damn 7 train seem like space age tech.

@CliftonR @amsomniac

Ladies and gentlemen, here's the automated self-driving electric pod system of the future! 🤯

These electric hyperpods arrive every 4 minutes on weekdays and every 10 minutes on weekends.

After passing through the futuristic platform screen doors, it whisks you to your destination through a tunnel at speeds of over 100km/h, including under Sydney Harbour.

I call it... The Sydney Metro!

@amsomniac@mit.edu Framing is everything 😁

BTW y'all seem to have missed that also the original Hyperloop has already been realized all over the world, but with a twist: instead of partly evacuated tunnels, it uses the near vacuum of the atmosphere at 10,000 metres, replacing the guidance provided by the tunnel walls by aerodynamic guidance, fitting out the pod with large, extended lift and steering surfaces...

I think the current fashionable trend is to have the human driver operating the machines remotely so you can avoid thinking about them and pay them less.

And of course it makes it so much more responsive and safe.

@trezzer

@JimJoe
To be clear, I'm near SF.

I believe that @futurebird is near NYC.

I pulled up the Muni bus because that's what I knew best, but there are lots of variations on that theme.

@jrconlin SF also seems to have quite some Stadler KISS EMUs now.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric…)

@JimJoe @futurebird

self-propelled carriages, using electricity as the motive power as opposed to a DMU which runs on diesel power

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