LA To San Fran In 30 Minutes? Hyperloop CEO Says Speed Tube Could Become Reality

CBS Los Angeles ^ | December 17, 2014

[ConservativeInPA]

PLAYA VISTA (CBSLA.com) — It takes about six hours to drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco – depending on your speed – and more than an hour to fly.

But in the future, the trip may take a matter of minutes.

Designers of the speed tube called Hyperloop say they are one step closer to making that happen.

Tesla founder Elon Musk says the technology is being developed with the help of about 25 UCLA graduate architecture students at a facility in Playa Vista.

Hyperloop has teamed up with the students to create the tube technology, designed to connect cities less than 300 miles apart.

[dalereed]

I'm in San Diego county and if I ever went to San Francisco again I will drive.

Even flying isn't practical, you pay to park at home airport, and have to rent a car in San Francisco plus having to put up with the airline schedule.

[showme_the_Glory]

"LA To San Fran In 30 Minutes?"

out of the pan, into the fire?

[itsahoot]

Now, let’s consider being in a tube...underground....going at a good rate of speed....in earthquake land.

Or you could just think about BART.

[Jewbacca]

What a target for the religion of peace!

Almost as cool of a target for the ROP as a nanotube space elevator.

[itsahoot]

takes a potential two hour trip and raises it to more like four hours.

The last time I rode a train it stopped more times than a Grey Hound bus, in fact we often stopped near a bus terminal where you could get off and buy food that they no longer carried on the train.(1963)

[BunnySlippers]

WE have a spiffy newish subway here in LA. Unused by me.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Don’t blame you. Who needs the Hill St. Blues ?

: )

[pogo101]

BART trains top out at 80 mph.

This train will go more like 800 mph to make the trip in 30 minutes, allowing for acceleration and deceleration.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “BART trains top out at 80 mph.” <<

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And often derail at 15 - 20 MPH!
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[hattend]

So do you have to clean the crushed bodies off the back and front of the cars periodically?

How many G’s does this thing pull accellerating/decellerating?

[pabianice]

Prototype Loop Car

[Jack Hammer]

Now, if you’re going from nowhere to nowhere, you can do it faster than before.

Until there’s another annual California earthquake, that is.

[cornfedcowboy]

This is a pipe dream.