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It's a race befitting the goal of moving passengers and cargo at the speed of sound: Three Southern California companies are building separate test tracks to see how well the "hyperloop" transportation concept works in the real world.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk breathed life into the hyperloop in 2013, when he proposed a network of elevated tubes to transport specially designed capsules over long distances. Top speed: about 750 mph.
Though momentum to build a hyperloop has been growing since, the concept dates back decades.
Capsules would float on a thin cushion of air and use magnetic attraction[sic] and solar power to zoom through nearly airless tubes. With little wind resistance, they could make the 400-mile trip between Los Angeles and San Francisco in about a half-hour. Musk has said that while he does not plan to develop the hyperloop commercially, he wants to accelerate its development.
On Tuesday, his SpaceX rocket launching firm said global infrastructure firm AECOM would build a one-mile track at SpaceX headquarters near Los Angeles International Airport.
If all goes well, by summer's end, the track will host prototype capsules that emerge from a design competition this weekend at Texas A&M University. The prototype pods would be half the size of the system that Musk envisioned and would not carry people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 29 2016, @10:34PM
Please justify your use of sic THIS time. "attraction" is spelled correctly. I cannot figure out what word that I might confuse it with because it might be a transcription typo. In fact, I would be highly impressed if you managed to change the word outright with a copy-paste. In fact, when it is an obvious copy and paste, there is absolutely NO reason to insert your own sics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05 2016, @08:20PM
Ah, there's always a sick/sic guy somewhere.
At least some of the maglev concepts use magnetic repulsion, or perhaps some combination of attraction and repulsion -- is that what you are nit picking about?