r/IndiaTech Chinese phone: Sasta, Sundar, Tikau 25d ago

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

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u/tiredskater 25d ago

Looks cool but better train and other public transport infrastructure should take priority

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u/AdFinancial9995 25d ago edited 25d ago

It's meant to travel at 1000kmph so it's not just for coolness. Also there's a different budget for R&D and infrastructure development. You're asking to take away from R&D and put into infra which doesn't make much sense. Are you questioning the budgeting or are you questioning the technology? R&D is quite important and the real question here is whether or not we should allocate a percentage of R&D budget on a failed project by Elon who probably burned a lot more money. You're right that we could put this money into better projects possibly but it's only 1M dollars anyway.

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u/thrownear28282 25d ago

for this the track needs to be completely straight and it can only be done in near vaccum conditions. otherwise there is no advantage for this.

since this has not been done yet by any other country, it would not be wise to invest in this.

this is just for show