Sentences with phrase «called hyperloop»

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

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.

Through the lens of Musk's vision of the world, I learned of the probable realities of driverless cars, affordable space travel, and something called Hyperloop transportation.

In addition to exploring the technology that sends bullet trains speeding across Europe and Asia at more than 150 miles an hour, the commission would also study the so - called hyperloop concept.

This year, Musk unveiled a much - hyped proposal for urban transit that he called the Hyperloop, which he said would be able to transport passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 30 minutes, at 350 miles per hour.

The other startup working on the Hyperloop, aptly called Hyperloop Technologies, is laying out its own track in the California desert.

Now, Musk has founded a new division called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, which has employed hundreds of experts and researchers to work on the project.

Speaking at the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design Competition at Texas A&M University on Friday, Foxx called the hyperloop a «very solid idea» and a «special moment in transportation» — one having «the potential for a moonshot» — as reported by The Verge.

Three years later, a firm called Hyperloop One successfully tested a propulsion system in a Nevada desert and is now contemplating a link between Abu Dhabi and Dubai that would take just 12 minutes.

Since then, a research company called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT)-- unaffiliated with Musk or any of his other companies and ventures — is right on track to making science - fiction legit science by building an actual test track for the technology in California.

And in 2013, Musk unveiled a design for a new kind of transportation system called Hyperloop.

The founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors says he wants to create something called the Hyperloop, a super-fast way to travel.

Ultimately, Musk wants to build a network of underground tunnels that could be used for cars or a futuristic transport system called hyperloop that theoretically would send people and packages, housed inside reduced - pressure tubes, long distances at super speeds.

The car elevator is just the latest mini-step towards Musk's vision of underground tunnels that could be used for cars or a futuristic transport system called hyperloop that theoretically would send people and packages, housed inside reduced - pressure tubes, long distances at super speeds.

Air cushioning: That's the high - concept technology behind the high - speed transit concept that billionaire Elon Musk calls the Hyperloop.

Not exact matches

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.

Musk — who already plays leading roles in the SpaceX rocket venture, the Tesla electric car company and the SolarCity solar - energy company — unveiled what he has called the «alpha» version of the Hyperloop plan in a blog post on Monday.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is unveiling something called a «Hyperloop,» reports CNBC's Phil LeBeau, and Musk says he may be open to building a prototype.

But then the Los Angeles - based startup recently raised $ 85 million in funding, including a newly - announced partnership with billionaire mogul Richard Branson and his Virgin Group — a move the now - called Virgin Hyperloop One says «provides external validation.»

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.»

Titled «Hyperloop Alpha,» the paper contained notes toward what Musk called the fifth mode of transport — the other four being planes, trains, automobiles and boats.

Virgin Hyperloop One, which is developing a tube - based train system, called a board meeting Sunday night and discussed allegations covered in the Bloomberg story, said people with knowledge of the discussion.

Marcy Simon, a spokeswoman for Virgin Hyperloop One, said the Sunday conference call was «a scheduled board meeting» and denied that directors asked Pishevar to step down.

Although, as of now, the main intent of the startup is to prove the viability of the Hyperloop project, while at the same time developing something that can be called more than a tech demo.

What engineers are calling a «propulsion open - air test» (POAT) will be the first public peek at the electromagnetic propulsion system developed by Hyperloop One, formerly Hyperloop Technologies, which released this animation today.