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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A few years back I actually found the hyperloop pretty novel and cool. Like put your car on skates and it could zoooom very fast. Yes a train would be better but this idea seems like a cool project. Fast forward now, and you still have to drive and stuff, it's lame af.

[–] kameecoding 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hyperloop is soo fucking stupid if you think about it for like 5 minutes, but lots of people bought into the hype.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Nah it was always a silly idea. But like something silly and expensive and you're kind of waiting to see how it would come out to be. But alas, it is a shell of the concept designs the public were exposed to