Hyperloop One posted new photos of its high-speed transit tube—confirming the futuristic mode of transportation is on its way to becoming a reality.
The company is building its first full-scale test track about 30 minutes outside of Las Vegas, Nevada on a site it calls “DevLoop.” When it’s complete, it should be able to demonstrate Elon Musk’s vision for how we will travel long distances in the future.
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The concept is ambitious, even by today’s standards. The idea is to load people into pods and fire them through vacuum tubes at more than 600mph. A trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles, which would normally take five hours, could be cut down to 30 minutes.
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As you can see from the images, Hyperloop one is well on its way to taking the fiction out of sci-fi. While it may look like an ordinary pipeline, Devloop is expected to start doing test runs on 500 meters of track by the first half of this year.
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The first commercial installation is set to travel around 100 miles from Dubai to Abu Dhabi in 12 minutes. It could possibly be ready as soon as 2021.
H/T The Verge