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Maintaining a vacuum over long distances is really fucking hard.
You'd be better served utilising existing rail infrastructure and improving that to make high speed trains possible.
Whole purposes of hyperloop was to derail any constructive debate on existing rail network. Pun intended. I’d say hyperloop was quite successful.
The role of government needs to be entirely about removing obstacles on private entities that try to create new (or old if that works better) methods of transportation. Not supporting or hindering anyone. If they let this fucking guy, or any other fucking guy talk them into anything, they're doing their job wrong. Even if Elon Musk is a persuasive person, this is almost entirely a failure of government.
Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong (before China at least) are good examples of how to handle all this well.
Small vaccum then. They managed to build a tunnel between France and England. Put people on the moon. Can do a lot
We do one thing. Must do other thing. Smart.
Why not just make a tunnel and forget the vacuum? It's just a subway system, but it's efficient
Edit: France & England might have dug a tunnel but Paris and London just have a subway. And train to move around the country.
Edit2: fixed wording