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64,087 Views • May 27, 2022 • Click to toggle off description
Richard Branson's high speed transport dream look to be derailing themselves as the company laid off half of it’s staff early last week.
The original plan was to offer low cost and ultra-fast passenger transport by building trains that could travel through vacuum tubes at close to the speed of sound.
The problem was that these tubes were much more expensive and much less practical to build than the optimistic billionaire anticipated, by all passenger metrics it lost out to simple budget airlines…
Despite $450 million dollars in investment funding the company has had to lay off over 100 staff and shift their focus to cargo transport.
This move follows their main rival The Boring Company which ALSO shifted its focus from the supersonic trains of the future building gerbil mazes for Teslas.
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someone should tell billionaires about trains...
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I've worked in the tech industry long enough to see that we're experiencing the modern form of divine right of kings. What I mean is that success is often based on a position held and not actual achievements. Growing up in an affluent community is a huge advantage because they acquire an inflated sense of self-confidence, learn to talk the talk and have stronger relatability to their peers. It's not just billionaires who enjoy this advantage; I've seen it extend all the way down to the upper-middle class.
It's one of the big reasons why these people are able to secure funding for obviously bad ideas or get a nice head start on their careers. They enjoy a level of inherent trust they don't deserve. Some of them prove to be good at their jobs, but at no higher rate than the general public. It's just that the rest of us have to work harder and longer to demonstrate our worth.
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Hyperloops will NEVER work because
-building a giant vacuum chamber tunnel that people can get in and out of quickly is borderline impossible
-the infrastructure cost will never beat traditional rail as the trains can simply be made more aerodynamic for a much lower cost and almost the same benefit
-its extremely easy to vandalize a giant vacuum tube, just drill a hole into it and the entire system collapses
-maglev and engine technology is still improving dramatically year after year meaning these hyperloops even if implemented will face extremely tough ongoing competition
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MFs will do EVERYTHING except build more transport trains
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This is what happens when idiotic tech bros try to revolutionize High Speed Rail. It will never work. Just build an HSR or a regular passenger rail
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engineers are always more than happy to go along the crazy tech hype as long as the costs dont come out of their pocket, so no surprise that they "just found" how costly this really is xD
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Bullet trains... Build a damn bullet train
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This is why you shouldn't name your company "Virgin"
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Why do billionaires hate trains?
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Literally just helping to fund the bullet train from Las Vegas to LA to SF would be such a huge benefit to letting people travel conveniently and ship goods around and keep it off the freeways. You don't have to get fancy with it, just have to cut through the miles and miles of government red tape and payoffs needed to get the job done..
Billionaires could do so much to make the world a better place, but nooo they gotta have their special pet project that dead-ends after wasting hundreds of millions of dollars with nothing to show for it...
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At least gerbil mazes don't have massive risk of death if a tesla has a malfunction and catches on fire :p
The worlds least reliable electric car in a tunnel to small to open the doors and with no safety exists, what could go wrong?
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Wow that's crazy
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These billionaires after all are just normal people with money and no engineering degree
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You mean Thunderfoot was right, WHAAAAAA? lol
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I want to keep all the trains all year and every year.
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I want to keep all the Amtrak trains all year and every year.
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Surely it’s better to have a commercial line anyways? You can do way more cargo in way less space, than you can with a passenger line. Get it producing revenue, and once profitable you can expand once the technology is more developed. Not a big problem if sometimes there’s pressure leaks in a cargo line. Bigger problem if there’s people in there
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Airlines and high speed trains.
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I want traditional rail trains.
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@Ivanfpcs
2 years ago
Imagine when they hear that japan have bullet trains for almost 3 decades now...
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