Comments by "looseycanon" (@looseycanon) on "First Hyperloop Passengers: BUSTED!" video.

  1. Forget bullet trains. Get reliable Wi-Fi and power outlets and youre done. Sure, you may take longer to reach your destination, but you can do stuff on a laptop or a phone, effectively losing time only when changing connections.
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  2.  @error404m  There are other problems with them. First, you need to seriously upgrade tracks to run them at their top speeds. Two, the process need's to be extraodrinarily precise. Botho of these increase costs of bullet trains when compared to a normal train and provide little to no tangible benefit... You spend a million dollars for fifteen minutes cut from your journey. Even when calculated across train capacity, this will not result in cheaper service and thus isn't as effective as providing Internet on normal routes. And then there is the notable problem of through coaches. Can't do that with EMUs, which most high speed rail trains are. What I mean, is that upgrading current rolling stock to work with the Internet, while not shortening travel time, is more cost effective per passenger for the company and can provide more flexibility to the passenger, be it commuter, who work's on his laptop traveling to/from work, student, working on an assignment, or a tourist listening to music.
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