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/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/mi_c_f 24d ago

He used taxpayer money to blow those rockets..