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India is the latest nation to make plans for its own Hyperloop, with the south eastern state of Andhra Pradesh signing a deal with startup Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) to build a high-speed transport route between two of its major cities.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is just one of the startups working away on Elon Musk's futuristic transport concept. When fully realized, such a system would see passengers and cargo flung through near-vacuum tubes at around the speed of sound in specially designed capsules that could cut the travel time between Los Angeles and San Francisco to just 30 minutes.
[...] And now it is making a move in India. The agreement signed between HTT and the government of Andhra Pradesh aims to connect the city centers of Amaravati and Vijayawada, which take around an hour to travel between by car but would take just six minutes by Hyperloop. HTT will start with a six-month feasibility study in October looking at the cityscapes to determine the best route for its transport tubes. If all goes to plan, construction will begin thereafter.
(Score: 2) by Nuke on Saturday September 09 2017, @12:32PM (3 children)
India is not in normal definitions of the Far East. I can understand Chinese and Japanese considering that Westerners are vulgar, like not removing their shoes when entering a house, and being loud and pushy (just like Elon Musk in fact); but Indians ..... no, not a shred of credibility.
India is the nation where it's considered OK to shit in the street, rape women ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20863860 [bbc.co.uk] or just Google "India rape"), operate telephone scams while the local police don't care, and it produces more than its own fair share of loud and pushy characters, like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai [wikipedia.org] . India does have some nice architecture though, and makes some very pretty jewellery.
I would not shit in the street anyway. Actually I don't have mains sewerage myself but manage a sceptic tank instead; things are fine thanks. My maternal grandparents had no electricity in their house but neither they nor my mother resembled cavepeople one little bit.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Saturday September 09 2017, @01:47PM
I seem to remember they called "sceptic think tanks" nowadays; I'm puzzled, though, how they let you shit on them.
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday September 09 2017, @02:32PM
It's good to add nuance to perceptions of India, but this one made me chuckle a bit. Chinese and Japanese are not very much alike in their manners at all. The Japanese are as you describe, but Chinese are more crass than Puerto Ricans in NYC at the Puerto Rican Day parade. They shit and piss in the street, too, and will hawk a giant loogie at the table next to you in a "nice" restaurant and spit on the floor. They'll clamber over you while you're trying to line up to buy a ticket, and think nothing of elbowing you in the balls to talk to a clerk first. The postal workers will open your packages and help themselves to the contents. I've witnessed nice country folk trample a small child when the bus pulled into the station because they wanted to get a seat first. Malthus couldn't have designed a more archetypical society. Now, if you should be invited into a Chinese home, it's different and they will be sweet as pie. Everywhere else, beware, laowai.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Saturday September 09 2017, @05:33PM
In the nordic countries you take off your shoes, a quick search suggest this is also the normal thing in eastern europe+russia and canada.