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1. Don't see the point of economic class vs first class pods when the whole point is to get you to your destination so fast you won't be in the pod for very long. Mid-class pods for all makes more sense.

2. Please don't emulate the airport model and build over priced malls within a "security zone". A Hyperloop is supposed to get you from point A to point B quickly. Following the airport model will add two hours to every trip.

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1. The purpose of higher priced classes is to give people who are willing to pay more the opportunity to do so.

The need to follow the airport model is one of the unaccounted-for costs of the Hyperloop, particularly on travel time. Because of the inevitable catastrophe implicated in any passenger attack on an 800MPH elevated train, it will absolutely have TSA-style security.

Why bother with a passenger attack when the whole route is exposed?

Or did you mean "TSA-style security" as completely ineffectual?

This is an incoherent argument, in that TSA-style security delays are just as likely to be eliminated from air transit as from a "hyperloop". As long as airports have them, any US "hyperloop" is also going to have security lines.

So yes, TSA-style security theater.

Yes:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jzp8htjdwj7htyn/Screenshot%202014-...

What's your point?

The cost differentiation is probably to help subsidize economy class fares, or even if it's not for that I think it would do that in practice.

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