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Technical University of Munich Team Beats Own Hyperloop Record

posted by martyb on Wednesday July 25 2018, @04:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the internet-of-pods? dept.

takyon writes:

Hyperloop test pod sets speed record

A competition helping to drive development of the futuristic hyperloop transport system has been won by engineering students from Munich. The hyperloop idea involves passengers in pods travelling at very high speeds down sealed tunnels. The team's pod hit 457km/h (290mph) on a 1.2km (0.75 mile) test track.

Run by the SpaceX aerospace company, the competition aims to refine the technologies that could underpin the super-fast transport system. The win is the third in a row for the Technical University of Munich team.

[...] In the latest round of the competition, the Munich team, Warr Hyperloop, outpaced rival capsules, which could manage speeds of only 88mph (Delft University) and 55mph (EPF Loop, from Switzerland), to beat its own record speed, 323km/h, set in the second competition, in September 2017.

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  • (Score: 2) by coolgopher on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:30AM (1 child)

    by coolgopher (1157) on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:30AM (#712835)

    Better inform all the tool makers & sellers who offer two choices: imperial or metric.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:25AM (#712895)

    Do you mean SAE? I have never seen an tool advertising itself as Imperial Standard.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAE_International [wikipedia.org]

    SAE is commonly used in North America to indicate United States customary units (USCS or USC) measuring systems in automotive and construction tools. SAE is used as a tool marking to indicate that they are not metric (SI) based tools, as the two systems are incompatible. A common mistake is to use SAE interchangeably with the word "Imperial" units (British), which is not the same as the USCS standard that SAE uses.