re: Houston to Dallas Bullet Train. It's happening!

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You're going to post a Tesla vehicle, and im going to show you how easy it is to hack into that vehicle right now.

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ok, regardless of the hacking, the car exists--- today.

Excellent post. That 1.2 Trillion we borrowed for the war on terror (close to 5 trillion when we included interest) could have went a long way on improving infrastructure, education, and healthcare.

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think people will ride it a lot at first as a novelty. Then they'll get over it and in 10 years TCR will be struggling mightily.

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and then they'll start reducing fares and the trashy people will take over. Just like airline travel. Add me to the list of skeptics.
I also think that people will decide they like their autos better than a train or plane and keep driving to their destinations. Not all people, but enough to make the train struggle financially. For all the convenience of high speed travel, the freedom of being able to get in one's car and come and go as one pleases with/without others (of your choice) still outweighs the benefits of alternative travel. JMO.

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Show me. You're going to post a Tesla vehicle, and im going to show you how easy it is to hack into that vehicle right now.

edit: Not talking out my arse. I work in Telecom lol.

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You can GPS spoof airliners today yet they still have autopilot...why not cars?

1) refer to my edit

2) Have you also seen the same videos of folks and their crashed Teslas?

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That same argument could have been used (and probably was) at the turn of the century arguing against highways because we had a rail system.

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indeed, if anything we goofed big time by tearing up the rail system in favor of the highway one.

at the time, we should have just invested more into the rail.

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There is no way autonomous cars would hit a price point in the next 5 years that make them "the norm". Tesla and BMW are the main consumer players, but it seems to be corporations with the heaviest investment towards autonomous vehicles Uber, Google, Intel, Trucking manufacturers, etc...

I think you're ultimately right, but just not that soon

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true, the model X is about $80-100k currently.

i guess we will see, i do think a high speed train would be sweet, dont get me wrong. im just skeptical. it will be interesting to see how it all plays out

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And when they have a viable route up and running with a capacity of riders that rival trains or buses, they'll move beyond being just a theoretical alternative to cars or high speed rail, which itself struggles to compete with air travel in this country.

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They've already gotten permission to tunnel through a mountain range in order to make way for their tube/track. Musk's company is called The Boring Company (yuk yuk).

I'm not enamored with Musk like some people are, but I don't know why people would root against things like this. It's not theoretical. It's being developed, and will be beneficial when implemented.

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We could page 777Tiger for the definitive answer to how aircraft report back but as far as i know, they have transponders reporting out to ATC towers all over the world. For transoceanic flights there is a constellation of communication satellites.

I was a radioman on a submarine, we used a similiar network of milsats to report our position and receive communications while at sea.

The MH370 (missing airliner) had jet engines reporting diagnostics back to the manufacturer which was one of the ways they were able to geolocate a search area

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I am curious about this as well.

The current strategy for IoT is small cell mapping between macro sites.

I'm working on some pretty cool shite that will transmit specific frequencies on different colors. Yes thats right. Colors.

So many people in this thread that have clearly never train traveled in Europe especially for business.

I agree its a great idea for liberals and romantics, but realistically train travel in the USA rarely makes sense.

Everyone that discusses the 4 hour of wasted time driving, is only considering single passenger trips. Take a family or business trip with multiple people, and you only have one driver in 3-4+ people.

Cost: Let's say $100 round trip for tickets, not to mention parking and getting to the station. How many families are going to do this for $500 when they could drive for $100?

How many people need to go station to station? Burb to burb taking a car will probably be a sub 1 hour time difference.

Don't forget waiting on trains and only select times. How many trips a day is realistic? Let's say 8? That's every 2 hours. So now if you have to wait an hour for a train when you could be driving, your break even period is nothing.

Even in Europe, train travel rarely makes sense if you own a vehicle and have more than 1 person making the trip.

America is way too spread out for trains. European towns and especially cities are WAAAAY more condensed. Which makes train and mass transit make much more sense. Again, I'd love to see more trains I just think its a pipe dream right now.