Hyperloop Onerecently crossed a major milestone , after it hurdled a vehicle through a vacuum - sealed tube-shaped structure at an middle - peeling 192 miles - per - time of day . That ’s almost Formula One speed , and by God , it looks incredible . Too unfit people inside the windowless seedcase will never get to see it .
The trial take shoes over the weekend , when Hyperloop One adulterate the 28 - foot - foresighted seedpod into a concrete tube in the Nevada desert . Per Elon Musk ’s psychedelic design , the company then absorb the air out of the electron tube making it about as tenuous as the air at 200,000 feet above sea spirit level . Then the seedcase deal off . At first , it used an galvanising propulsion system to bring it up to stop number , and then , the wheels retracted so that a charismatic levitation system could take over . Then the cod really occupy off , top out at that record - high 192 miles per hour .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjv7bB9hy0k
This is n’t the first full - fledge Hyperloop test from the Los Angeles - based fellowship , though . Back in May , the company conducted an initial demo that run into the pod turn over 69 miles per hour ( nice ) on a 315 - metrical foot - foresightful stretch of cart track . But finally , Hyperloop One hop to build a system that will go as tight as 250 mph on the test track . Even then , the technology still has a ways to go before it can clock the 500 mph speeds design for the Abu Dhabi - to - Dubai route .
Let ’s all say that again : the engineering still has a ways to go . While the nuts and deadbolt of creating a giant pneumatic tube organisation that can nail fuel pod over long distances at mellow speeds is here , a real Hyperloop that human beings might utilise to commute face plenty more challenge . Land rightfield , for one , could order the ultimate success or failureof the mankind ’s first Hyperloop system . Even then , there areeven swell political and bureaucratic challengesthat the technology faces . The latest tests show that the Hyperloop is n’t quite a fantasy . But it ’s not quite a reality yet , either .
But blank out all that boo - hoo business ! Let ’s all just sit down back and bask the ultra futuristic wonder of a elephantine pod zooming through a void tubing at crazy f number . get ’s look at the brightness level as they zoom overhead , like you ’re speeding across the power grid in Tron orbringing the ship up to warp speed . Let ’s enjoy the optical maser - themed graphics on exhibit through the window of the po — oh await . The Hyperloop pod does n’t have any window , so we wo n’t actually see any of this cool stuff . wait neat in the YouTube video recording , though .
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