The demonstration took place Wednesday outside Hyperloop’s facility at Apex Industrial Park.
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The concept, originally drawn up by Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, is created to move “pods” filled with passengers through tubes, which move at ridiculously high speeds-700 miles per hour.
Over the past year, we saw the idea of a hyperloop grow with the support from investors as well as fans.
Hyperloop One was cofounded in 2014 by BamBrogan, a former SpaceX propulsion engineer, and venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar. The funding and test are important steps in Hyperloop One’s mission to build a fully operational hyperloop system by 2020. In addition to transporting people at high speeds, the system is also envisioned as a way to more efficiently move goods to and from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and at seaports around the world. And for what seems as many years, I’ve been promised that one day the technology will exist to beam me Star Trek-style from the Bay Area to SoCal in an hour or less.
“When you build a new transportation system in a city that doesn’t have anything, you change the lives of people”, Systra’s senior vice president for Northern Europe, Mathieu Dunant, said at a Hyperloop One event on the eve of the test.
The founder of Tesla and Space X suggested sending pods holding cargo and even humans inside giant vacuum tubes between Los Angeles and San Francisco in 30 minutes. Hyperloop One is developing the Hyperloop, an elegant, integrated structure to move passengers and cargo between two points immediately, safely, efficiently, and sustainably.
Concern over these kinds of distances will be a thing of the past if Hyperloop One has anything to say about it.
Compared to this early demonstration, eventual hyperloop trains will run in sealed, low pressure tubes for minimal air resistance.
The test comes after Hyperloop One announced that it was tweaking its name from Hyperloop Technologies and had closed an $80 million (£55m) round of financing.
“We purchased land here in December, and we demonstrated today a full-scale component of the Hyperloop, just over my right shoulder, in just a couple of months from beginning construction”, said CEO Rob Llo, Hyperloop One.
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Conceding that the two companies are often confused for each other, Lloyd said that his firm will now be known as Hyperloop One.
