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Originally Posted by red-beard
Mike, you need to acquaint yourself with the ADA...
No way someone will build one of these without a wheelchair ramp
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Actually that's an interesting question.
Does (for example) a private company jet need to be ADA compliant?
OK, what if they made 1 of the dozen or so pods "accessible", and run it slower and with an extra gap between it and the pod behind it. Maybe it only hits 0.2G, gets to 500mph, and takes 55 minutes to arrive.
Minutia like that doesn't affect this design, but it does give the interwebs something to talk about
I will admit, when they first started talking about this, I figured it was a back of the envelope kinda deal, Mr. Musk would say "hey here I am with more grand ideas", but it's clear that he put a great deal of work into this before presenting it, far more than i expected, and far more than you would see for any other "pie in the sky" proposal like this. He knew that people would immediately try to destroy the idea, and had it hardened beforehand. Stress analysis of the pylons? Who does that at this point?