'Hyperloop Hotel' Could Be the Future of Luxury Travel

[Judi Lynn]

By Kacey Deamer, Live Science Staff Writer | June 23, 2017 12:00pm ET

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The proposed Hyperloop Hotel would use shipping containers turned into hotel rooms to carry guests between more than a dozen U.S. cities via a Hyperloop transit system.
Credit: Brandan Siebrecht/Radical Innovation Award


A new design concept that aims to combine the luxury of a hotel room with a high-speed rail system could make traveling between U.S. cities faster and far more comfortable.

The mobile "Hyperloop Hotel" idea was recently announced as the student winner of the 2017 Radical Innovation Award, a competition for new ideas in hospitality. The Hyperloop Hotel is the vision of Brandan Siebrecht, a graduate architecture student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Though the Hyperloop — a transportation system in which passenger-filled pods are accelerated through low-pressure tubes to their destination — is still in the development phases by several companies, Siebrecht thinks it is the next big innovation in transportation.

In fact, he was inspired by the startup Hyperloop One, which recently began construction of a full-scale test track, known as the DevLoop, in the Nevada desert. [In Photos: Building the Superfast 'Hyperloop One' Transit System of the Future]

More:
https://www.space.com/37285-hyperloop-hotel-radical-innovation-award.html

[hunter]

1. Railroad car hotel rooms were a common feature of utopian fiction.

The railroads would drop your hotel car off at a luxury sidetrack village in the city you were visiting, no need to book a hotel room.

As things turned out only the uber-wealthy (and a few Secret Service agents...) were able to afford such luxury.

[mitch96]

2. I think Hyperloop is such a neat idea......but

The Trucking and Airline industry would put a kabosh on it. It would kill their business...
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[hunter]

3. Anti-union on DU?

Please...

[mitch96]

4. How would this be anti union?

'splain dis to me. Do you mean that trucking and airline union jobs would be lost??
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[hunter]

5. Ooops. I read your post wrong.

This is what happens when I have too many tabs open.

[mitch96]

6. Ooops. I read your post wrong.

No worries mate, It gave me a chuckle...
I come from a very pro union family and I was an organizer for 1199 hospital union in my younger years... so it was like Whattt???
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[LongTomH]

7. Somehow this seems reminiscent of Robert A. Heinlein's 'Road Cities'.......

....giant, moving belts (think moving sidewalks; but, bigger) with entire towns, hotels, restaurants. Their introduction was in Heinlein's 1940 'Future History' story: The Roads Must Roll. Most of Heinlein's Future History was way, way off the mark; but, in a way, it anticipated the modern system of superhighways and the 'urban sprawl' associated with them.

[DetlefK]

8. Hyperloop doesn't work. We would need sci-fi-level technology for that.

1. Evacuate a whole tunnel to 0.1 bar or so. Few people have any idea how many vacuum-pumps we would need. A big one can pump 250m³ per hour. If the tunnel is 3x3 meters, we would need a pump every 28 meters. And those things are loud.

2. You cannot maintain the vacuum. To get trains in and out of the tubes, you would need load-locks you can evacuate separately.

3. If there is any accident with the tunnel, the vacuum collapses and the train runs into a wall of air.

4. If there is any accident with the train, all the breathable air is sucked out of the train and the passengers die.

5. If a train stops due to some malfunction, there is no way to get the passengers out. Because the train is inside vacuum and the vacuum is inside a fucking metal-tube.