What you are seeing here is a plan by Elon Musk to make public transit very fast. This is the alpha plan for some new transport from Los Angeles to San Francisco in about 30 minutes.
This transport is some kind of linear accelerator, a railgun traveling along an electromagnetic pulse. As a transport pod travels, it can then be made to slow down. These pods will be placed five miles apart so passengers can keep loading and keep going.
The cost of this would be a whopping $6 billion dollars, but it would definitely a new standard of mass-transit. I can’t help but wonder if the monorail guy from that classic The Simpsons episode will make a guest appearance.
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