Hyperloop Train Analogies

Commenters repeatedly analogize hyperloop or pod-based transport proposals to trains, highlighting shared flaws like poor braking, inability to decouple or exit tracks independently, safety risks from fires and derailments, and maintenance issues.

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networkrail.co i.e trains train railway tracks rail traveling car freight tunnel heavier

Sample Comments

muro Aug 6, 2023 View on HN

Trains can't break quickly.

giantrobot Jul 21, 2020 View on HN

Trains would like to have a word.

adrianN Jul 3, 2018 View on HN

You are worried about trains separating.

innocenat Feb 7, 2020 View on HN

Doesn't work if the train caught fire or something.

c22 May 8, 2018 View on HN

Because the train is on tracks.

kuschku Jan 3, 2017 View on HN

You are describing a very inefficient train ;)

notarealllama Jun 17, 2024 View on HN

Maintenance trains, interesting takeaway from this. There's a trolley problem joke in there somewhere.

jokoon Aug 25, 2015 View on HN

How safe is this train really ?

strathmeyer Apr 2, 2018 View on HN

Didn't work for trains, now did it?

scotty79 Dec 29, 2025 View on HN

The train worked, the railway did not.