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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Trains can't break quickly.
Trains would like to have a word.
You are worried about trains separating.
Doesn't work if the train caught fire or something.
Because the train is on tracks.
You are describing a very inefficient train ;)
Maintenance trains, interesting takeaway from this. There's a trolley problem joke in there somewhere.
How safe is this train really ?
Didn't work for trains, now did it?
The train worked, the railway did not.