HSR or Hyperloop?

[tomh009]

If Hyperloop can support branching/intermediate stops, then interesting.

If not, there's no point in supporting it over high speed rail.

Hyperloop is point-to-point, no branching.  But as with air travel (also point-to-point), you achieve branching by having intermediate stations/hubs.  With stations in London, Kitchener, Pearson and downtown Toronto, you would travel from Kitchener to Toronto by hopping off a pod at Pearson, and onto another one bound for downtown.  The concept has very frequent pod departures so the time lost in changing is not bad, and made up by the high speeds.

(Whether California HSR really needs as many intermediate stops as have been proposed is a whole other discussion ...)