Why?
As global warming increases wind sheer also increases which means air travel and people being injured in takeoffs and landing are going to significantly increase over time worldwide. Because of this Hyperloop in tubes that would be hopefully impervious to wind sheer or winds as they slowly increase to 100, 200 and 300 miles per hour on the ground because of increasing global warming.
So, safety would be the biggest factor in hyperloops. However, I see the single biggest detractor from hyperloop travel is simply that you cannot escape from the vehicle in an emergency if it stops suddenly. So, exits are going to need to be created at least every mile so people can escape the transport without dying from heat or cold somehow, so they can exit not only the vehicle but also the tube into the outside world.
But, another problem would be during earthquakes where tubes became misaligned and the vehicles could be destroyed because of this along with all the passengers. Because if you hit a misalignment at 600 miles per hour no one would survive. Everything in the tubes would have to stay perfectly aligned at that speed not to have a complete disaster. Also, I'm thinking the friction caused by that speed might cause some problems too regarding heating of the tubes and air inside the tubes unless they vacuum all the air out of the tubes. But if you vacuumed air out of the tubes anyone trying to escape a hyperloop stationary vehicle would suffocate.
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