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Great, let's ravage the plan to have proper public transportation and turn it into glorified toll road.
TIL that money really is the only source of truth. Like bruh, that's just a complete nonsequestor.
So all box.sol really cares about is if it is profitable.
Not that it actually functions well.
It's not even that profitable, assuming the data is correct.
Cities with similar size in other countries can make hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars instead with massive public transports.
How does the Hyperloop work anyway? How they manage to avoid accidents. Are they put into rails like trains? Aside from the requirement of having a car to use one.
You're talking about the Loop, which is so stupid they couldn't make self-driving work on their private road.
Hyperloop is a 100-year-old concept called "vacuum train" that Elon summarized in a sci-fi white paper with lots of nonsense (concerning the cold gas thrusters alone: they would destroy the vacuum that took days to pump and their tanks would make the train 8x longer) and "declined to patent it out of generosity" (in fact, the idea cannot be patented due to both age and insanity). He only used it to delay California's HSR to make sure people kept using Teslas.
It doesn't.
You can call it inefficient if you must, but tunnels are also homes for countless people on the streets, included most big cities of the USA. . . . Yeah, that doesn't feel funny, but It also feels inadequate to put an /s.