Sentences with phrase «hyperloop tube»

They are leveraging the same hyperloop tube and pod technologies that they have been working on for years now — albeit the fact that it was mainly aimed at passenger travel.

A trip in a Hyperloop tube from Los Angeles to San Francisco — a six - hour car ride — could take just over 30 minutes at the speeds engineers are promising.

«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.

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HTT, which lays claim to the brand name «hyperloop» — a futuristic transport system that essentially involves sucking people through a vacuum tube at high speed — says it is «building the first commercial line in Abu Dhabi.»

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

A Hyperloop is a nascent transportation system that pushes pods through a vacuum - sealed tube, and the goal is to transport people between cities at speeds of up to 700 mph.

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.

The Hyperloop would send travelers through low - pressure tubes in specialized pods that zoom at high subsonic speeds, reaching more than 700 mph (1,100 kilometers per hour).

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 hyperloop's pods aim to zoom along in vacuum - sealed tubes at around 700 mph.

Because the Hyperloop's capsules would travel within a depressurized tube, getting passengers out between stations would be tricky, to say the least.

The Hyperloop is a high - speed ground transport concept proposed by Musk to transport «pods» of 20 to 30 people through a 12 - foot diameter tube at speeds of roughly 700 mph.

Though Hansman says the human body can comfortably withstand the acceleration levels that would come with traveling in the Hyperloop, creating a safe environment for passengers would require designing extremely smooth inner walls for the tube without any rough edges.

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk released the original Hyperloop white paper in 2013, describing a system that would efficiently shoot hovering pods full of cargo or passengers through a depressurized tube at up to 700 mph.

Hyperloop Tech and HTT both launched soon after with the goal of getting pods into tubes.

Hyperloop gets around this major issue by only having a partial vacuum in the tubes (meaning they can leak a little).

Hyperloop One completed the second phase of testing its ultrafast transportation system, propelling an aerodynamic pod down a low - pressure tube at record speed and distance, the company announced Wednesday.

When asked on Twitter (twtr) to elaborate on his «high - speed loop» proposal that would link O'Hare Airport to downtown Chicago, Musk tweeted, «A Loop is like a Hyperloop, but without drawing a vacuum inside the tube.»

His Boring Company wants to build a «Hyperloop» vacuum - tube tunnel that would suck people from Washington, D.C. to New York in less than half an hour, at speeds of almost 800 mph.

Magomedov is co-executive chairman of Los Angeles - based tech firm Virgin Hyperloop One chaired by Richard Branson, one of several firms developing a futuristic transport system that involves propelling people at high speed through sealed tubes.

The hyperloop, first proposed by Elon Musk, uses magnetic levitation to travel along a nearly frictionless vacuum - sealed tube.

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

The hyperloop would travel 700 mph in a nearly frictionless tube, likely either at ground level or below.

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.

Propelled by compressed air and induction motors inside a vacuum tube, Elon Musk's Hyperloop passenger - train concept is designed to travel at 760 mph — much faster than Japan's new maglev bullet train (374 mph).

SpaceX's second Hyperloop Pod Competition ended last weekend and WARR team won with a top speed of 201 mph (324 km / h) achieved in 0.8 mile in SpaceX's 1 - mile long near vacuum tube.

After announcing «the successful completion of the world's first full systems Hyperloop test in a vacuum environment» last month, Hyperloop One is now releasing the details of a new test with their actual pod in their vacuum test tube.

Take Hyperloop: In 2013, Musk unveiled his vision of a revolutionary, if somewhat retro - looking, new transport system that would whisk people through tubes at speeds approaching 1,200 km / h, and challenged others to run with the concept.

The Hyperloop — Elon Musk's high - speed tube transportation system spanning hundreds of miles — might actually become reality.

The Hyperloop transportation system, the concept that was first popularized back in 2013 by Tesla Motors founder and CEO Elon Musk, is a high - speed way of moving people and cargo through depressurized tubes.

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.

He is also the co-founder and co-executive chairman of Virgin Hyperloop One, which is seeking to develop a futuristic tube - based transportation system with Richard Branson.

Musk first proposed the Hyperloop, a vacuum tube intended to speedily shoot passengers at 800 mph from city to city, in 2013.

Hyperloop transportation is basically shooting a container through a really really big pneumatic tube really really fast.

Hyperloop One, a three - year - old, L.A. - based company working to create near - supersonic trains that can whisk both passengers and cargo in giant pneumatic tubes at speeds of many hundreds of miles per h

A number of companies are seeking to develop his vision for Hyperloop, a supersonic transportation system that will propel pods through an overground tube at a modest 760 mph.

Hyperloop would use a series of powerful pneumatic tubes to move passenger - or cargo - filled capsules from place to place at speeds up to 800 mph.

I'm guessing that Musk's Hyperloop will be different (I'm guessing Musk's thing will use tubes that have very low air pressure - too hard to get a complete vacuum, but the less air, the less friction - and use maglev - like ways to accelerate and decelerate, which means as a bonus that you can recover a lot of energy when you decelerate), but we'll see soon enough.

And if flying through the air in an autonomous drone isn't your bag, perhaps you'd be more interested in tube - based travel: Dubai is working with LA - based startup Hyperloop One to build the world's first passenger - ready hHyperloop One to build the world's first passenger - ready hyperloophyperloop.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), a research company committed to building the revolutionary Hyperloop transit system, inspired by Elon Musk's idea of making people travel in high - speed tubes, has secured a target launch date of 2016 to build a working full - scale demo version of the Hyperloop.

One of the companies planning to build a Hyperloop test track has begun receiving its first set of test tubes, reported Tech Insider's Cadie Thompson.