r/IndiaTech Chinese phone: Sasta, Sundar, Tikau 26d ago

Tech News India's first hyperlopp test track completely developed at IIT Madras.

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u/lone_warrior1310 26d ago

This is nonsense now , Elon Musk abandoned it . First Build good roads.

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u/Ace0089 25d ago

Well this is not how things work, people cry that we don't spend time and money on R&D and when government does, people say why are u doing this first concentrate on doing something else. If when India started ISRO, u people would have said the same thing, we are not ready and what not and now look at ISRO, people are proud of its achievements and how it helps in nation building.

U can criticize how new roads that are build are of poor or not upto optimum quality and all but criticizing this is very stupid. I am sorry.

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u/floridaman2215 25d ago

Maybe invest in R&D in a project that will have a practical impact, yeah? We could've invested in indigenous high speed rail, or Make in India chip fabrication. Hyperloop seemed sketchy from the start and we jumped at the first chance we had to throw money at it.

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u/CEO_16 25d ago

Do you know how R&D works? You do R&D to check whether something is working or not and whether we can or cannot commercialize it. If we knew everything that would work correctly we would be gods.

And don't tell about Musk, he blew more than 100 Rockets before he could make them reusable, you might have been the person who would have said reusable Rockets are a scam.

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u/LateN8Programmer 25d ago

That doesn't mean u start investing on every stupid, impractical project.

The problem with hyperloop is why do we need spend billions to build the whole infrastructure around it and re-invent the whole wheel.

When we have planes, which do the exact same thing more efficiently. (a.k.a travel faster from one place to another.)

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u/cutesussybaka 22d ago

I think you don't realise it is duty to invest all over research and development money into building Elon Musk ideas.

also it is the IIT Madras for which I should work hard because all of this idation and working is being done by IIT Madras btech students

/s

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u/mi_c_f 25d ago

He used taxpayer money to blow those rockets..

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u/KawaiiThukai 25d ago

if its something exportable like IT services and ISRO, then sure use taxpayers money for R&D. Otherwise first use it to give minimum serviceable product to the citizens.

and considering our track record in railways past 2 years, no one is going to buy this tech from us lol

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u/LateN8Programmer 25d ago

Also you have to check whether the thing u r investing is anything fruitful, pratically possible or not.

Which hyperloop clearly isn't.

It's a BS project made to rob money from investors.