Elon Musk Reveals How Hyperloop Will Change Transportation

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A #hyperloop, as you may have heard, is a super speed ground-level transportation system in which people could travel in a hovering pod inside a vacuum tube at speeds as high as 760 mph (1220 km/h), just shy of the speed of sound. Virgin's system includes magnetic levitation, much like the technology used in advanced high-speed rail projects in Japan andGermany.

As a vision for fast transportation, vacuum tube transit systems have been around for a surprisingly long time. In 1845, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, an engineer in Britain and the #ElonMusk of his time, proposed building a tube in southwest England that would propel trains at a then-dizzying speed of 70 mph (110 km/h). The project proved unfeasible due to lack of equipment’s that would maintain it, and Brunel’s concept was abandoned. Despite Brunel's struggles, it was more than a century before Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk turned the world’s attention back to tubular transit technology. Back in 2013, he published a 58-page technical paper that outlined the design of Hyperloop, a solar-powered transportation system, which he interpreted as "a cross between a Concorde, a railgun, and an airhockey table."

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