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Elon Musk's Hyperloop gets its own hilarious Taiwanese animated video

VentureBeat Aug 15, 2013

Written by Sean Ludwig

Telsa Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has received a lot of attention for the Hyperloop, his futuristic transportation method to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes.

Elon Musk’s Hyperloop gets its own hilarious Taiwanese animated video

August 14, 2013 12:32 PM

Sean Ludwig

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Telsa Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has received a lot of attention for the Hyperloop, his futuristic transportation method to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes.
Musk’s Hyperloop proposal shows people-carrying capsules running through a long metal tube at speeds up to 760 miles per hour. Each capsule could carry 28 people, and 40 total capsules could be in motion during rush hour. It supposedly would cost $6.1 billion to build.
But the idea is little more than a pipe dream at this point, and it could very well never happen. Which means it is ripe for parody and exaggeration.
A new video from Taiwanese animation firm Next Media Animation — the Taiwanese firm that creates Sims-like animations for popular news stories — tries its best to illustrate what the Hyperloop would look like with some hilarious results. Not only do passengers get a full cavity search before riding the Hyperloop, but their clothes fly off while traveling at crazy high speeds.
Check out the absurd video above.
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Elon Musk's Hyperloop gets its own hilarious Taiwanese animated video

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My first reaction to Hyperloop was that it wasn't practical. But then on reflection I realized it could work by not having a vacuum present and using in combination an electric fan the size of a jet engine to move the air from front to back of the vehicle as part of it's propulsion system along with the circular mag-lev. But then it would also have to have a water tank for cooling all the friction through the tube. It also would need screens periodically on the bottom of the tubes to drain water and water condensation. Actually the biggest problem would be mold and heat in the tubes and in creating escape hatches downwards on the bottom of the tubes next to the stanchions to the ground for passengers to escape in emergencies. For riders the biggest problem might be clean air and not being able to see out at the view very clearly. So, likely claustrophobia would be the most difficult thing for riders to learn to deal with. But some might go if they could cheaply move at 700 mph from Los Angeles to San Francisco or between any 2 other cities on earth.