No, see underground traffic jams are so much better!

The rich want something they'd use.

And the rich won't mix with the poor drunks in vegas who would use a subway.

Tunnels need to be large so they can have safety features like emergency walkways and air conducts. Musk's tunnel is just large enough to contain a car, because every inch of diameter costs an enormous amount of money.

Before this project Musk boasted that his Boring company can do tunnels much cheaper than traditional companies, this tunnel showed how.

It's the most Los Angeles solution to a problem I've ever seen. Meanwhile London has had its underground trains since 1863.

Carbrains keep reinventing the wheel with individual cars, the hyperloop stans also like to hype their innovative idea of automating cars to link together on highways to "streamline traffic and achieve better speed"

Don't you dare call it a train, they will fucking melt down on you.

I thought hyperloop literally sucked vehicles through the airtight tunnels. :-)

that's what I call innovation

Well, yeah, but both maglev and vacuum are high maintenance. Doing both seems like asking for constant downtime due to failures.

The "hyperloop" ignored centuries of lessons from making metro/subway transit lines and is suffering for it.

Single loop, single track operation so you have no tolerance for an individual vehicle having problems or delays. 2-3 passenger vehicles, each with a driver, instead of gaining throughput by putting more passengers per vehicle. To try and make up for the first two, incredibly time sensitive load/unload operations, which mean you have to 'train' passengers and load them and their luggage in <30s/person or the entire system suffers. High wear on the vehicles because it's rubber on 'rock' instead of metal on metal.

More operating vehicles, all of which are only constructed to consumer standards, operating in harsher conditions than they were built for, for longer than they were meant to run without maintenance, leads to more breakdowns faster. Any breakdown trashes how the whole system works, because it's a single track operation.

The Victorians literally built better subways using horses and vacuum systems.

We already knew how to make metro and transit. Hyperloop taught us nothing except that we shouldn't trust billionaires

Bluntly, nothing new was learned from any of hyperloops endevors, the fast boring was done by using smaller machines, which the company did not develop. Maybe we confirmed our knowledge of air resistance

I don't think they learned anything new. They just bought some tunnel boring machines and made some tunnels

Also I think the tunnels are for cars