SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team has placed first in the design phase of SpaceX's Hyperloop competition. 115 teams submitted designs, and 22 teams will be able to test their designs on a 1.5 km test track during the summer:
Designs for passenger pods that could travel through airless tubes have been revealed by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Hyperloop is a conceptual transport system in which passenger pods could be fired through vacuum tubes at more than 600mph (1,000km/h). The MIT team came first in a SpaceX competition to design pods that could be tested in a prototype tube. The team will now have the opportunity to build and test its design in the US.
Elon Musk - the entrepreneur behind companies such as Paypal, SpaceX, and Tesla Motors - announced his vision for a Hyperloop transport system in August 2013. Although SpaceX is not developing its own commercial Hyperloop, the company says it wants to "accelerate development" of the idea and is building a mile-long test track in California. The winning entries in the company's design competition will now have the opportunity to test them in full-scale tubes over the summer.
Previously:
SpaceX will hold a Hyperloop Pod Competition in 2016
Three Tracks Planned to Test 'Hyperloop' Transportation Idea
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday February 05 2016, @03:18PM
Were you envisioning a particular way of doing so? Pumping air in at the station to push the car all the way to the destination, like them old-timey message tubes? (or like the escape route in The Living Daylights)
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05 2016, @03:39PM
"Old-timey"?? Don't you mean futuristic [theinfosphere.org]?
(Score: 1) by YeaWhatevs on Friday February 05 2016, @04:01PM
Yea that's pretty much it. Don't forget it draws air from the other side too, but only enough so that you can use it as controlled air brakes.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by wonkey_monkey on Friday February 05 2016, @04:17PM
I guess (uninformedly) that the main objection to a plan like that is that you're going to waste a lot of energy compressing and moving air, when the kinetic energy of the car could be increased by much more direct means.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 06 2016, @02:48AM
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pneumatic_Dispatch_-_Figure_7.png [wikimedia.org]