I wonder how such a system would handle earthquakes and the like.
Now, I don't know that much about the Hyperloop design, but I imagine that the earthquake-induced deflection in the tube may render it unusable for some amount of time. However, the the example goes to show that somewhat similar infrastructure can be built to withstand large seismic events, as long as the faults are known about ahead of time (which is the case in southern California but not everywhere on earth).