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Perhaps the opposite in fact. Modern high-speed rail is a concentrated, semi-fragile target. 200-300mph with 150-200 passengers - a particularly bad combination if you're talking about a terrorist target.

From what I understand of Musk's hyperloop approach, the pods will each carry relatively small numbers of passengers. In theory it should be much, much more difficult for a terrorist to kill a lot of passengers this way.




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