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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: 1) by linkdude64 on Friday February 05 2016, @04:12PM
Easy fix. If they're using a vacuum just move the hose to the exhaust port and it should blow them just fine.
(posting with no karma bonus for this one)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 05 2016, @08:37PM
(waits for someone to run some sizing calcs for required compressor power)
Suggest using 1000kg for the capsule/car mass so it is large enough to carry some people, along with the life support required to keep the people breathing and otherwise comfortable inside the evacuated tube.