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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
There's actually ways to judge how ready technology is. It's called Technology Readiness Levels (TRL).
And generally beyond funding for R&D purposes, governments don't fund infrastructure below TRL 7. And the parts of the Hyperloop is TRL 4 at best.
This might be defensible if there weren't already mature technologies to transport people. And if Canada was actually getting patents out of this. |
More of a 2 isn’t it? None of the “tests” have actually tested the thing hyper loop is supposed to do (they have either not been in a vacuum or at ridiculously low speeds for ridiculously short distances). It would be like calling the Goddard experiments of the 1920s a test of the Saturn V.