Sentences with phrase «speed hyperloop»

Saudi Arabia's millennial Crown Prince met with Richard Branson to discuss bringing a high - speed Hyperloop transit system to Saudi Arabia.

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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.

Richard Anderson says he does not see Elon Musk's idea for a high - speed hyperloop overtaking traditional rail travel and transport anytime soon.

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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.»

But the elder Rosenthal is more than just a figurehead: He remains an active participant in all facets of Raleigh's business and is a close observer of the technologies and trends that could shape the organization's future, name - checking everything from Instagram to Elon Musk's proposed Hyperloop high - speed transportation system.

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

Virgin Hyperloop is «way ahead» of other companies focused on the high speed transportation technology, Richard Branson said.»

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.

Hyperloop One, a startup pursuing the system for commercial use, reached a top speed of 192 mph in August on its 500 - meter test track in Nevada.

The plan is for the hyperloop to reach speeds of around 700 mph.

Elon Musk released plans for his Hyperloop high - speed transit system on Monday, following days of speculation on what it was and how it would work.

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.

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).

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.

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

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.

Still, Hyperloop One has probably made the most strides of any company looking to build the low pressure, high speed tubular system first proposed by Elon Musk in 2013.

The tunnel would support a Hyperloop, a high - speed transit system that's still in the early stages of testing.

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.

Robert Lloyd, Hyperloop One CEO, tell CNBC about the next generation of high - speed travel for Americans.

Last month, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology won a competition among more than 1,000 college students who presented design concepts for how the Hyperloop might transport pods of people from city to city at high speeds.

The hyperloop, a catch - all term describing the technology that's been developed by numerous companies since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk crowdsourced the idea in 2012, resembles a bullet train that can theoretically travel at velocities nearing the speed of sound (about 700 miles per hour).

In my mind, Musk's idea has two components: building tunnels quickly and cheaply (The Boring Company), and a futuristic high - speed train (Hyperloop).

For Phase 2, we built upon everything we learned from our initial test and accomplished faster and faster speeds at a farther distance,» Hyperloop One's chief engineer and co-founder Josh Giegel said in a statement.

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.»

Virgin Hyperloop One, which has been testing in Nevada with speeds reaching 240 miles an hour, is working to meet a goal of having three production systems in service by 2021, according to its website.

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.

Hyperloop Technologies» futuristic high - speed transportation system is one step closer to becoming reality.

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.

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.»

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

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.

Less than a year after making public his concept for a «Hyperloop» high - speed transportation system — essentially saying, «have at it, developers» — the erstwhile PayPal co-founder, current CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, and general poster boy for successful geeky entrepreneurs has made another bold declaration of his laissez - faire attitude toward intellectual property.

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

Musk has used branded merchandise to raise money and draw attention toward his tunnel - boring business, The Boring Company, with which he hopes to construct underground tunnel networks that could be used for his proposed Loop and Hyperloop high - speed transit systems.

Publish alpha design for world's first Hyperloop: high - speed transport that's a cross between a Concorde, a railgun 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.

Hyperloop One already has agreements with governments in more than a dozen locales who want to see the high speed rail built on their turf.

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Hyperloop, Elon Musk's dream to transport passengers at the speed of sound through vacuum tunnels between major cities, is going to cost much more than the billionaire industrialist first thought.

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.

Musk originally believed a hyperloop connecting Los Angeles to San Francisco would cost about $ 6bn, 10 times more than the $ 68bn the government is set to spend on a high - speed train line connecting the two cities.

«Traveling at top speeds of 1000 km / h DP World Cargospeed systems, enabled by Virgin Hyperloop One technology, will transport high - priority, time - sensitive goods including fresh food, medical supplies, electronics, and more.

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.»

Startup firm Hyperloop Transportation Technologies announced that it has licensed cheaper, safer technology than the magnetic levitation currently used in high - speed trains.

Engineering students from the University of Illinois have come up with a miniature model of Elon Musk's hyperloop concept proving that the high speed human transport system is feasible albeit on a scale of 1:24.