Logan's Run, here we come. Death panels and mazecars.
Posted on 05/13/2016 4:40:55 AM PDT by mountn man
It's a bird. ... It's a plane. ... It's a pod of steel! The future of transportation could be closer than you think as Hyperloop One tested its electric engine in its first open-air demonstration on Wednesday.
Before its first test run, Rob Lloyd, CEO of the tech start-up, said that the company — formerly known as Hyperloop Transportation Technologies — is "rewriting the rules" in transportation technology.
"The world is watching. It's cynical, but it's cheering for us at the same time," Lloyd told CNBC's "Squawk Alley." "Our objective is to find the routes in the world where governments, citizens, regulators can come together really quickly."
The test was a demonstration of the production-scale electric motor that the company developed, Lloyd said. A test sled powered by the motor, which will go inside the end-product tubes, ran about 2.5Gs fast for only a couple of seconds on about a third of a mile-long straight track in the desert a little north of Las Vegas.
This will be the same site for the first full-scale version of the transportation technology. A full demonstration of the system is slated to run by the end of 2016, according to Lloyd.
The growth of this transportation innovation has been accelerating since Tesla's CEO Elon Musk, who has no affiliation with the companies actually producing this technology, proposed the idea for the project about three years ago. The Nevada testing site has been developing for less than six months, CNBC reported on "Fast Money Halftime Report."
The company will start to produce the cargo tubes in a couple of weeks, Lloyd said. These steel pods, 11 feet in diameter, will be magnetically suspended on a track and able to reach up to 760 miles per hour.
The rail was charged with 7000 volts. I guess we better build some nuclear power plants. Or coal fired...or oil.
If they build it to fit a single person in a conveyance vehicle, I will ride it. Otherwise not.
I think it’s a matter of time to have underground trains running across the country at the speed of sound.
ONce again, look at all the candidates and what they would say about this. Only Trump would speak from experience, the others would meet with their managers and parson out some response.
That’s why I like Newt. He’s very big on new technology and science and getting the politics right so companies and people will want to build their plants here, and do research here.
Everyone wants this. Trump/Newt team could really transform the all earth and do much good for mankind for once.
Make for some very crispy critters when it shorts out.
At 2gs acceleration? I guess the passengers will be goo by the time the 1 hour trip is over.
Company motto: You may be a puddle of protoplasm when you arrive, but you’ll get where you need to be faster than anyone else!
At 2.5 G’s acceleration, you’ll get to “know” the guy in the seat in front of you very well!
New company motto: Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, bringing people together, at the cellular level!
We're about to be pod people.
Failed after five seconds. Scalability is always the issue with these kinds of projects
760 MPH? My first thought...Muslims are gonna love this!
Top fuel dragsters hit 4g.
They're at 330 mph in 3.7 seconds.
2 more seconds they'll be at 700+
Surround it with pork by products
Better hope he's not from India.
I think this would be great for cargo, although I suspect USP, Fedex, USPS and the Teamsters don’t think so.
Just curious where you read that it failed? The test ran its entire planned fission and distance. Next step is supposedly a in a two mile vacuum tube loop.
Imagine a 300lb person x 4g = 1,200lbs
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