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The Hyperloop, detailed by the SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk in a 57-page alpha white paper in August 2013, is a transportation network of above-ground tubes that could span hundreds of miles. With extremely low air pressure inside those tubes, capsules filled with people would zip through them at near supersonic speeds. Musk published the paper encouraging anyone interested to pursue the idea, since he's kinda a busy guy.
Hyperloop Transportation Technologies announced today that it has signed agreements to work with Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum and global engineering design firm Aecom. The two companies will lend their expertise in exchange for stock options in the company, joining the army of engineers from the likes of Boeing and SpaceX already lending their time to the effort.
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The startup plans to start construction on a full-scale, passenger-ready Hyperloop in 2016. The prototype will run 5 miles through Quay Valley, a planned community rising from nothing along Interstate 5, midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. Ahlborn says he's got several potential investors.
The hyperloop would certainly redefine the concept of commuting.
Related: SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016.
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(Score: 2) by SubiculumHammer on Thursday August 20 2015, @11:24PM
There is probably no part of Central CA that is 100 miles from nowhere, anywhere, if by nowhere you mean a town with at least 25,000 people.
(Score: 2) by snick on Thursday August 20 2015, @11:30PM
By anywhere I mean a facility with the staffing and equipment to safely evacuate the train before the folks inside cook, and clear the track ... errrm, tube. Sure, there will be cows within 100 miles, but that won't help (much?)
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday August 20 2015, @11:44PM
It might as well be the middle of nowhere. It's going to be incredibly high up and the local population isn't going to have the tools or expertise to get in there and help.