Ah, Hyperloop. Always wondered what they planned to do with the passenger safety. Say, the passenger capsule depressurizes, and the air escapes into the tunnel, that'd be nasty. Or the capsule gets stuck in the middle of the tunnel: now you have to break it out, reseal the tunnel and then remove the air out of it again (its hundred of kilometres long), that sounds pretty expensive and time-consuming. And what if it crashes into the wall instead? At the proposed speed that'd be a pretty heavy impact, would people survive it?
The same problems are mostly faced by airliners, I imagine that similar solutions will be found for this transport implementation.
e.g.
- drop down oxygen masks
- dedicated evacuation tunnel infrastructure
- ergonomic safety rated seat restraints and capsule superstructure
If you have means to depressurize the tunnel, it's only a peak in operation costs to do it again. Also not unlike airlines, the company provides the vehicle so they can enforce their own requirements
