Sentences with phrase «as hyperloop»

After Musk released the Hyperloop alpha white paper, Pishevar created the company called Hyperloop Technologies; known as Hyperloop One today.

Meanwhile, in his spare time, Musk draws up plans for revolutionary transport systems, such as the Hyperloop and VTOL supersonic jet aircraft known as the Musk electric jet.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies says it reached an agreement with Slovakia to explore building an ultra high - speed transit system known as a Hyperloop.

While these teams, along with larger companies such as Hyperloop One and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, are working on solving the technical issues of the hyperloop, other challenges exist ahead for the transportations system.

The idea is certainly very futuristic, but hardly new, as Hyperloop is a type of vac - train.

From electric cars that can drive themselves to modernized public transport such as the Hyperloop to human - sized drones and hover boards (real ones, not those silly two - wheeled contraptions that catch on fire), we are entering an era of potentially dramatic change on the transportation front.

Not exact matches

Civilization has developed planes, trains, automobiles and boats, but Musk envisions his conceptual Hyperloop high - speed transit tube as a fifth mode.

The so - called «Bos - Wash Landliner» was imagined in the late 1960s as running on air skis (a little like the initial Hyperloop proposal), vacuuming up moving vehicles at 60 miles an hour, and housing everything from a 100 seat theater to a gym.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Dubai - based port operator DP World put its name Sunday on the hyperloop technology it has already spent millions of dollars to develop as work continues to make it operational across the grand plans of its designers.

The Virgin Group and Hyperloop One are entering into a strategic partnership as a part of the deal, and the startup will also be rebranding to be known as Virgin Hyperloop One over the coming months.

The company also has competition from companies like Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, as well as from Elon Musk, who first proposed the system four years ago and recently decided to give it a go himself.

It's not at all a given that Hyperloop One's test will go as planned.

It's possible that the Hyperloop could be held back by technical as well as political and economic issues.

The name certainly helps too — the company is now rebranding as Virgin Hyperloop One.

This combination of technologies is what led Musk to describe the Hyperloop last month as a «cross between a Concorde, a rail gun and an air - hockey table.»

To do this, Hyperloop One uses electric propulsion in a vacuum environment to launch a pod that slightly hovers above the track thanks to what's known as magnetic levitation, or mag - lev technology.

«That's what breaking ground looks like,» BamBrogan said as he shared photos of the Nevada site, complete with earthmovers and actual Hyperloop tube segments.

The hyperloop is being touted as a revolutionary technology that could reinvent transportation as we know it.

Hyperloop Tech's rhetoric may even show, albeit in a backhanded way, that it takes HTT seriously as a long - term competitor.

Hyperloop Tech, by contrast, has a site in Nevada, a state the team described as more cooperative on permitting than California.

«The Pune - Mumbai route is an ideal first corridor as part of a national hyperloop network.»

«I believe Virgin Hyperloop One could have the same impact upon India in the 21st century as trains did in the 20th century,» Branson said.

In addition to SpaceX, the entrepreneur serves as chief executive of Tesla Motor Co., an electric car company, is chairman and co-founder of SolarCity and is working to build a high - speed «Hyperloop» transportation system, which — in theory — could revolutionize travel by cutting commute time from Los Angeles to San Francisco to 30 minutes.

Several of the teams attending this weekend are returning with newly designed prototypes, such as the WARR Hyperloop team at the Technical University of Munich.

Hyperloop One this week announced that it completed the first full - scale test of its high - speed transportation system, a move the company hailed as the burgeoning technology's «Kitty Hawk moment.»

Egli added that he, along with the Hyperloop Advanced Research Partnership, which he serves as president, is advocating for President Donald Trump to include hyperloop funding in his proposed $ 1 trillion infrastructHyperloop Advanced Research Partnership, which he serves as president, is advocating for President Donald Trump to include hyperloop funding in his proposed $ 1 trillion infrastructhyperloop funding in his proposed $ 1 trillion infrastructure plan.

The Hyperloop, as originally outlined in 2013 by Elon Musk, would travel in a nearly airless tube.

Earlier this summer at the D11 conference, when Musk first mentioned the idea of the Hyperloop, he described it as a «cross between a Concorde, a rail gun and an air hockey table.»

As the hype surrounding Elon Musk's Hyperloop generates more and more buzz, the potential reality of super high - speed tube transportation is now being discussed around the world.

According to a press release from Hyperloop One, Branson's Virgin Group is investing in the company, which will rebrand itself as Virgin Hyperloop One.

Giegel had also met Branson several times when he worked as a engineering team leader at Virgin Galactic just before he left to found Hyperloop One.

Hyperloop One hasn't been in the news as much since they secured a new investment from Richard Branson's Virgin and changed their name, but now they are coming back into the spotlight with a deal presented as «historic».

Over the next few months, when Musk was asked about it, he said that when he had time he might publish an open - source version of this Hyperloop plan for others to work on, and meanwhile he offered more opaque clues as to what his idea was («a cross between a Concorde and a rail gun and an air - hockey table... if they had a three - way and had a baby somehow»), which inspired lots of online speculation, much of it deeply skeptical.

As we noted in a previous report, Dubai has proven to be a supporter of the Hyperloop concept.

Ahlborn says the team has decided that the best route is one that goes in as straight a line as possible in order to prevent the high - speed twists and turns from turning the Hyperloop into what one critic called a «barf ride.»

Theoretically, the Hyperloop system can send people and cargo moving as fast as 760 miles per hour.

Hyperloop might revolutionize transportation as we know it.

Per Galloway, the Hyperloop could revolutionize transportation and may one day replace trains and airplanes as means of getting from one destination to another.

The Hyperloop certainly has other (arguably simpler) market opportunities than moving people, such as disrupting the air freight or trucking industry, but those are issues for another time.

From the images of the pod's interior, it appears like Dubai's Hyperloop system would be a comfortable ride as well, as evidenced by the generous amount of legroom shown in the full - scale prototype model.

This morning, Dirk Ahlborn, the CEO and cofounder of JumpStartFund, the group overseeing Hyperloop, released a 68 - page crowdstorm document outlining their progress on the project, as well as new artwork of the train and its passenger - carrying pods.

Apart from this, Dubai is also expected to debut its Hyperloop system as early as 2020.

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Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk released his design for the futuristic transit system, Hyperloop, in August 2013 and that dream could become a reality as early as 2015.

The Boring Company later added fuel to the fire by saying its tunnels would be used for Hyperloops as well as Musk's underground highways.

Sir Richard Branson described the Saudi hyperloop prohect as «a vision that allows people to be able to travel quickly, securely and comfortably with completely clean technology.»

HTT bought land last year to begin initial construction on the Hyperloop in Quay Valley — a proposed 75,000 resident, solar - powered concept city being built in King's County, California that intends to use HTT's test track as its main transportation system.

Not since Tomorrowland's PeopleMover has a vision for the future of urban mass transportation garnered as much attention as the high - speed Hyperloop system has.

Musk believes humans are capable of trusting Hyperloop as a form of public transportation, and MIT has called Hyperloop's design «ambitious to the point of being outlandish» but a functionally sound concept.