With Virgin’s Hyperloop due to begin service in 2030, the company has released a teaser for the ‘experience’ wherein passengers arrive at a Hyperloop ‘portal’ (’stations’ are so 2029), enter a pre-booked vactrain pod and maglev to their jaysus destination at speeds in excess of 1000km/h.
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If it ever comes to Dublin I presume it’ll be one-way hyper-speed.
Out.
I’d gladly buy you a ticket
No chance. He’d have to leave the house.
Cannot wait for these. You’d be able to get to Longford town from Dublin in 5 minutes.
They are building one to Longford town aren’t they??
With a stop at Menulla junction.
With a sea maglev track to the Isle of Man it’ll be fine for day trips.
Begin service in 2030…. but where? :)
Germany, definitely.
Was on a ICE(InterCityExpress) from Munich to Berlin in 1995 and was amazed by the VDU in the carriage displaying the actual speed the train was travelling – ‘We are now travelling at 230kph, estimated time….etc.’
That was 26 years ago.
Motion-detecting urinals 26 years ago in Munich airport was another ‘Wow’ moment. It definitely beat the abuse I suffered at Heathrow where I was addressed as ‘Paddy’ by an English policeman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwnkQsmvDyI&feature=emb_rel_end
will the free travel pass cover this? i’ll probably qualify be the time its built.
“Hi it’s me, I’m on the Hyperloop, I’ll be home in 25 seconds”
Wow, somebody invented the train…
In comparison to Iarnród Éireann/Irish Rail in the 1990s, DB ICE was the Hyperloop.
“ahhh jaaays ’em only aftuur gettin stabbed on de bleedin’ hyperloop” .. has a strange ring to it. Guess the future is fast approaching.
Sure everyone’ll be remote working by then anyway..
Way too Black Mirror-esque for my liking…
‘Maglev to their jaysus destination’
LOL
Hah; bit Pure Mule that.
Maybe concentrate on the space thing first… how many tickets have been sold already for that? Anytime I see it on the news it’s on another test flight…