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How many amusement parks can load a ride car once every two seconds? Even continuously moving ski lifts aren't anywhere close to that and that's basically ideal conditions where the seat is delivered straight to your butt, and most users can reasonable be expected to be fit and coordinated. In the real world, people dawdle. You'd probably need dozens of loading lanes to reach .5/s, which means the stations are very large and expensive caverns.


You mean stations like this? https://www.boringcompany.com/chicago


>> which means the stations are very large and expensive caverns.

> You mean stations like this? https://www.boringcompany.com/chicago

Yes. This is a very large and a very expensive cavern.


The Hyperloop car proposals all seem substantially longer than a Tesla, so maybe of you stacked two or three layers in there.




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