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 test could no sustain itself beyond five seconds....DOn’t know where you did science but that is a fail
Perhaps you have some information about the test that I’m not privy to. Having said that, if you watch the videos and inspect the pictures, then you’ll notice that the track is very short, only long enough for the intended under five second run.
If they are able to develop this technology to the point where travel across significant distances can be conducted safely and efficiently, I think domestic air travel would pretty much become a thing of the past.
Btw, I just noticed that auto correct changed the word distance to fission in my original post, which is weird.
It’s turning out to be one of those days lol. Duration is the intended word. Posting on my phone while distracted isn’t very efficient.
Vulnerable to terrorism much?
Depends on what the goal was. With a 1/3 mile long track at the target speeds that’s not a lot of time needed for a successful test.
True, but I think every form of transpo is vulnerable. I’m expecting high-speed rail in Europe to experience the curse of immigration.
Which is why I mentioned scalability
I know. Autofill kills me all too often too
If they build it to fit a single person in a conveyance vehicle, I will ride it. Otherwise not.
Argh. I admit to reaching a point where I view nearly any mass transit system as a liberal, statist, contrivance, to provide jobs to their constituencies, and control the flow of people to where THEY want us to go, not where WE want to go.
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