Sentences with phrase «like hyperloop»

One of the most viable and sustainable transportation technologies on the planet is already mature, and although it may not seem nearly as sexy as something like the Hyperloop, the humble bicycle is actually a far more relevant and accessible way to get around, whether it's to the office or the grocery store or hauling goods to the market from a rural village.

Indeed, with companies like Hyperloop One touting nearly supersonic travel speeds, the need to reside close to where you work could be completely eliminated.

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.»

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.

By building a series of underground tunnels, Musk hopes the company will create the infrastructure for new forms of transit, like Hyperloop, that will allow people to travel faster and face less congestion.

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.

The entrepreneur's transportation brands are known for extra touches like groovy lighting and free entertainment, which Giegel says aligns well with Hyperloop One's vision for what it wants riding the high - speed rail to be like.

Hyperloop One, one of the companies looking to create the high - speed rail that Elon Musk outlined in 2013, on Tuesday released a video that shows what it might look like to travel by Hyperloop.

«It feels like there's some confusion between the company that's building something, and the company that has people talking about building something,» said Rob Lloyd, Hyperloop Tech's CEO.

«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.

At the time, Inc. suggested that a mogul like Branson could be the key piece the hyperloop needed to become a reality.

«I sat in investor meetings in October of 2014 where investors would say like, «This is a waste of time, this will never happen, you'll never be able to do this,»» Josh Giegel, Virgin Hyperloop One's chief engineer and a former employee of Virgin Galactic, told Fortune Wednesday in New York City.

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.

The crown prince visited the Virgin Hyperloop site in America and I think he liked what he saw.

Elon Musk seems to like making headlines every other week, and he's done it again with his nonchalant announcement of the next steps for his Hyperloop...

Announced with much fanfare and in the presence of Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem and Virgin Hyperloop chairman Richard Branson, the new company is basically built on buzzwords like «on - demand» and the promise of future performance.

Conceptual sketches of the Hyperloop released in August's white paper show a small passenger area inside a sleek, cigarette - like car with DeLorean-esque doors.

With innovations like driverless cars, commercial space travel and Elon Musk's much - touted hyperloop lurking just beyond the horizon, travelers are closer than ever to knowing what exactly travel will look like a few decades from now.

FTE explores how the likes of Airbus A ³'s Vahana, Hyperloop and Boom Supersonic could redefine travel and transportation in the relatively near future.

And unlike other more elaborate technologies like self - driving cars or hyperloops, they are not dependent on massive investments and reinventing wheels.

His brash style may not be to everyone's taste; some of his goals (hyperloops, Mars missions and the like) might prove overly ambitious; the whole endeavor could yet falter, but the sweeping vision contained in Tesla's master plan has to be the benchmark for any and all businesses seeking to prosper in a decarbonizing economy.

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.

Saudi Arabia plans to build a Hyperloop that would shrink commutes from hours to minutes — here's what it could look like

But more than that, the company also released a slickly produced video to give us a glimpse at what riding in a hyperloop would be like from the passenger perspective.