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Having a HUD with the speed would not be a safety issue though. And eye-tracking could be integrated to safety features instead of a UI (where if your eyes are closed or not looking up front, eventual auto-braking/auto-something could be more assertive with an automated response)

Interesting. You could have that as part of an inter-modal system, where you would use this for proximity errants, and for regional transit, use it to a Faster regional Station (which could be small cabin Monorails like SkyTran or medium cabin monorail) where you go to another station where you...

Hyundai HCD-14 features HUD, eye-tracking and gesture-recognition Hyundai HCD-14 Genesis Concept Interior Demo - Eye tracking and 3D hand gesture recognitio... - YouTube I would like the Gen3 to have HUD for displaying the car's Speed in the windshield (that you could activate or deactivate)...

Wouldn't there be a 10 minute stretch in the middle where you would have very little turning or acceleration, but just coasting along? And if for various reasons the trip ends up in real life being closer to 40-45 minutes than 35, its more of an issue for more people, and a design with...

When they mention a larger design able to carry 3 cars, does that indirectly also mean that this larger version could have larger passenger pods with cabins that could have a small alley and a small airplane-like restroom? (to avoid the Chlorox and Depends solution, and make possible longer...

Heres a suggestion: To make the next version of the Keyfobs water proof, or offer a waterproof version as an option.

In curves would the pod rotate so that the lateral-G is felt as coming from the bottom of the seat? If you are sideways and feel 1G comming from what appears to be down, is it relatively smooth or is there discomfort like you are being tossed around? If so, how much of a curve could be built...

"You Must Construct Additional Pylons!"

"A shorter (and less expensive) test. The route is not a very straight shot, though. 25 miles is almost too short for a real test. At speeds of 150 mph, you'd on and off in about 5 minutes." Make it a 300mph 2 minute roller coaster ride! With twists and turns! ;) Orlando airport to Disney would...

"Anyone who wants to attack this problem is free to do so without any bidding: the whole idea is open-source." Yes, it was a figure of speech for multiple interested parties rather than actual bid, indeed all that want to develop the hyperloop should be collaborating (governments, tech...

The idea of emergency re-pressurization and exits are reassuring. If prototypes are proven and perfected, maybe instead of 'a priori' LA-SF project(as great as it might be for CA), it might be interesting, (potentially with a bit of corporate and crowd-source financing) to consider turning...

There's something Id find psychologically unpleasant. I remember a story in Pearl Harbor about a ship having rolled as it sunk, and people were trapped by the hull. In the very unlikely scenario where a part/piece of pod is broken off and causes damage on the next pod that disables it and...

I dont know about SF/LA in particular, but in many large cities, if your starting point is outside of the downtown area, going downtown where a train station is can also be time consuming. If you startoff outside of downtown in the morning rush hour, getting there can be more of a headache than...

Toilet Solution 1: Small Restroom Cabin (in larger version of the loop, the one that could have cars could probably have a intercity bus like toilet) Solution 2: Depends and Clorox Solution 3: Have a Station located around 15 min mid point (like a subway line with stations about every 250-300...

"What this project need now is maybe a project web site, similar to the one that is used in open source software projects? I do not think that EM and his team have the capacity to absorb all the discussions and contributions available from the thousands and thousands of enthusiasts that could...