It's very irritating talking about whatever hyperloop is, because that the bar for what the hyperloop is keeps changing (Is it tunnels? Is it in a vacuum? If there's no vacuum isn't it just a tunnel? Is it your own car or a pod? There's solar panels somehow?).

If we wanted better transport we should invest in busses and trains, which have better carrying capacity and better failure modes than whatever hyperloop is supposed to have. Oh an over a hundred years of proven effectiveness.

But I think people want magic solutions to things rather than the simple, working solution that we already have.