Arrivo

Hyperloop inspired high speed super urban network

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Hyperloop inspired high speed super urban network

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Arrivo is high-speed super urban network. It's like if Hyperloop One AND Elon Musk's The Boring Company had a baby.

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I love when "feel good" kickstarter videos gloss over the insurmountable bureaucratic red tape that will inevitably toss this utopian fantasy into the junkpile with the Space Elevator (remember that one?).

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8yr ago

This is a fascinating idea, but I’d be interested in asking the creators if they’ve done any feasibility studies yet? I live in Denver and for those unaware of the area, Denver is unlike most cities its size in terms of infrastructure. There are no freeways that cut through the city center, for example (25 comes close, but still just skirts the edge of downtown). I could see something point to point like the Hyperloop coming to the area in the future, but this seems more metropolitan and casual...something that would probably augment the city’s public transit system more than replace flight. I could also see it as a commuter rail alternative for slightly longer distances or city loops. But both of these cases would require major infrastructure changes to the Denver area in my opinion. Either way, I’m still excited and can’t wait to see how this plays out.

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8yr ago

I like to try this, how can I?

Pros:

fast and reliable

Cons:

at this point I have no cons

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8yr ago

Let's hope the maiden voyage has better luck than Amtrak Point Defiance :-(

Pros:

I liked the video. It made me feel that I could solve all my worldly problems with a fast train for my car.

Cons:

May cost BILLIONS to bring to market in most cities. This is the Boston Big Dig for what amounts to Amtrak v2.0.

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8yr ago

Will be congested exactly like our today's roads as soon as everyone will use it.

Otherwise, it should be paying and just favor the high caste...

Pros:

Beautiful concept

Cons:

Totally unsustainable

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8yr ago

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There was a project that aimed to deliver self-driving capsules in the town I currently reside, Austin, Texas. These capsules don't use technology that has "yet to be invented" they are mimicking what is already happening at Terminals around the world's busiests airports, i.e. Heathrow. Each capsule could provide space for a family of 4 plus their luggages and could be requested with the press of a button, a la Uber. Instead of using lanes on the current road, the idea proposed was to create elevated lanes on top of pedestrians walk. For a small innercity loop the cost was estimanted to be 160M to build these over-your-head lanes. The capsule technology already exists and the "stations" to allow safe passenger pickup could easily just be a part of the second floor of the many "parking garages" available around the city. Innovative, cheap (considering the train track costed over 1B dollars here) and sustainable (electric vehicles). Guess what happened next when proposals reached the lobbies :>

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8yr ago