The Hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and freight transportation, first used to describe an open-source vactrain design released by a joint team from Tesla and SpaceX. The Hyperloop could potentially convey people or objects at airline or hypersonic speeds while being energy efficient compared to existing high speed rail systems. This, if implemented, may reduce travel times compared to train and airplane travel over distances of under approximately 1,500 kilometres.
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The Hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and freight transportation, first used to describe an open-source vactrain design released by a joint team from Tesla and SpaceX. Elon Musk first publicly mentioned the Hyperloop in 2012. The Hyperloop could potentially convey people or objects at airline or hypersonic speeds while being energy efficient compared to existing high speed rail systems. This, if implemented, may reduce travel times compared to train and airplane travel over distances of under approximately 1,500 kilometres. In June 2015, SpaceX announced that it would build a 1-mile-long test track to be located next to SpaceX’s Hawthorne facility. By November 2015, with several commercial companies and dozens of student teams pursuing development of Hyperloop technologies, the Wall Street Journal asserted that some members of the unaffiliated Hyperloop Movement refer to themselves as the man who started it. The MIT team developed the first Hyperloop pod prototype, which they unveiled at the MIT Museum on 13 May 2016. On 29 January 2017, approximately one year after phase one of theHyperloop pod competition, the first ever low-pressure pod run in the world was demonstrated by the WARR team from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. The team won the overall prize for the highest overall score for the overall Hyperloop design. Within this competition, Hyperloop was also awarded the Technical award for the fastest pod by the Delft team for the ‘fastest overall pod’ The first human trial with Virgin Hyperloop executives Josh Giegel, its Chief Technology Officer, and Sara Luchian, Director of Passenger Experience as the first passengers at a speed of 172 kmh at the Virgin HyperLoop’s DevLoop test site in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The word mark ‘HYPERLOOP’ was issued to SpaceX on 4 April 2017. The Hyper Loop Alpha was released as an open source design. The name Hyperloop was chosen because it would go in a loop. Musk envisions the more advanced versions will be able to go at hypERSONic speed. The ideal hyperloop system will be more energy-efficient, quiet, and autonomous than existing modes of mass transit. Musk has also invited feedback to ‘see if the people can find ways to improve it’ to that end, and several interdisciplinary student-led teams are working to advance the technology. In May 2013, Musk likened the hyperloop to a ‘cross between a Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table’ and said it could be used to transport people and objects at twice the speed of a plane. An early system design was published in the Tesla and Musk blogs which describes one potential design, function, pathway, and cost of ahyperloop system. According to the alpha design, pods would accelerate to cruising speed gradually using a linear electric motor and glide above their track on air bearings through tubes above ground on columns or below ground in tunnels to avoid the dangers of grade crossings.
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