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In the meantime, Business Insider thinks it may have an idea of what the Hyperloop could be.

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Ahlborn will discuss the project's progress, the collaboration of the project's partners, and what it takes to build the first passenger - ready version of the Hyperloop.
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.
What is the Hyperloop?
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.
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.»
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.
The demonstration was built by SpaceX to showcase what types of designs we should expect from students competing in the Hyperloop Pod Competition.
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.
Last weekend's Hyperloop pod design contest attracted heavy hitters to what amounted to a coming - out party for the technology.
This is what makes Hyperloop different from most vac - train concepts.
He says the Hyperloop will be solar - powered and cost passengers less than what it would cost to take the train or plane that same distance.
Hyperloop chairman and chief operating officer explains what the Elon Musk - backed company has to offer India.»
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.
Now Elon Musk shows what a machine built by Tesla and SpaceX can do in the same hyperloop.
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.
The crown prince visited the Virgin Hyperloop site in America and I think he liked what he saw.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced plans for a 5 - mile test track late last year and is about to break ground on an initial framework for what HTT CEO Dirk Ahlborn hopes will become the U.S. transportation infrastructure of the future.
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.
What about hyperloop or some med tech company?
Some of the things covered are: What Tesla Motors» mission is, SolarCity (mentioning again the imminent IPO), Musk's idea for an electric plane that would be much more efficient than the current generation of planes, why hydrogen fuel cells won't make it in cars, the «hyperloop» 5th mode of transportation -LRB-!?)
Saudi Arabia plans to build a Hyperloop that would shrink commutes from hours to minutes — here's what it could look like
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.
Self - driving cars, computers that can converse in real - time and hyperloop transportation are among the developments that will shape our future beyond what we thought possible.
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.
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