Class 12 English Unit 4 Technology

Basically, the Hyperloop is a highly ambitious conceptual transport system in which passengers are loaded into pressurized pods and fired through vacuum tubes, all at a supersonic speed. Hyperloop isn’t just about incredible speed; it also aims to be heavily environmentally friendly by operating purely on electricity.

The basic concept of the Hyperloop is not completely new, though. Pneumatic tubes for parcel, mail, and money transfers found widespread acceptance in the 19th century and are actually still used at modern supermarkets, postal sorting stations, and bank drive-throughs today. Hyperloop’s concept heavily resembles these pneumatic mail delivery systems. Even flying in the air seemed to be absolutely impossible in past days, but now travelling via air is a common, everyday occurrence for us. So no one can definitively say that it’s not possible, because everything which was a wild dream once, is often reality now.

In conclusion, we can see that Hyperloop may indeed become the transformative future of transportation systems worldwide. If this becomes a scalable reality, even though it is not expected for decades, there will be an immense positive impact on ordinary people’s lives and economies. Apart from the convenience and the green impact, we can also hope for massive economic success.

However, despite the immense promise, implementing completely new technologies takes time, and it will be a while until we can seamlessly travel in a pod inside a sealed tube with a sound only as loud as a gentle ‘SWOOSH.’

The number of private vehicles is increasing day by day in Nepal, completely beyond the capacity of our fragile infrastructure, and is vastly outpacing the country’s road development. The number of Nepalese who own personal cars and motorbikes is steadily increasing. Despite the fact that it eases their day-to-day life, it is causing great environmental and economic losses due to traffic gridlock. The excessive use of private vehicles should be restricted since their widespread usage severely degrades the environment and increases emissions of hazardous greenhouse gases that will create major health problems in the future. To control this critical situation, some strict structural safety measures have to be taken.

The best initial approach is to actively discourage people from opting to buy cars. This can be effectively done by heavily increasing toll fares for cars and by devising a strict system of progressive taxation on private vehicles. The system can have a legal upper limit on the number of cars owned per family, and the rate of tax on each car can be exponentially increased as the number of cars bought keeps rising.

But these administrative efforts would be completely meaningless unless they are accompanied by massive measures to encourage people to use public transport by totally revamping the dismal public transit system in Nepal. More clean buses need to ply during rush hour, and the buses must be made significantly more comfortable (by using better cushions, functional air conditioning, better suspension, etc.). The punctuality and absolute reliability of public transport systems must be strictly upheld. Cleanliness and public hygiene must be kept in mind while maintaining bus and train stations.

The above approaches must be powerfully complemented with civic efforts to change the false social notion that using public transport is contemptible or only for the poor. The best weapon to deal with this stigma is to make public transport as dignified, fast, and pleasant as possible.

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