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posted by martyb on Saturday September 09 2017, @02:52AM   Printer-friendly

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday September 09 2017, @02:39PM (1 child)

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday September 09 2017, @02:39PM (#565666) Journal

    That's also true of India's space program. Why build rocket ships when you can't build toilets?

    Then again, peoples have a deep need to feel proud of themselves, mixed with fatalism about things that have always been. The things that have always been feel impossible to change, while the things that are new and exciting feel possible.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Grishnakh on Saturday September 09 2017, @02:52PM

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Saturday September 09 2017, @02:52PM (#565672)

    That's also true of India's space program. Why build rocket ships when you can't build toilets?

    You could make similar criticisms of the US: why build rocket ships and space stations and Moon landers when you can't give your people universal healthcare and 1/6 of your children are growing up in poverty without enough food? But it's still correct to pursue the space program; fixing the social ills takes far more money, and also political will which just doesn't exist, and pursuing space programs has created huge economic benefits (from better technology developed) which do help much of the population. We'd certainly be in a far worse economic state now if we had never bothered with a space program or landing on the Moon.