I've always thought a good enough high speed transport is a scheduled flight that leaves every hour on the hour and you can buy tickets right before the flight.
As i understand it, transporting humans via air is largely infeasible without fossil fuels. It think the main benefit of a hyperloop is that it seems possible to stick with it as we make the energy switch
EDIT: pretty convenient that it would benefit from batteries and solar, huh? ;)
I'm a big Elon Musk fan and I think one of the best things he's got going for him is marketing acumen. I think of the Hyperloop as fundamentally a marketing story- doesn't matter whether it works or not, it gets the story out that the person running Tesla/SpaceX is some sort of whiz. Very well played IMHO
That's silly. The fuel and operation costs are way too high.