+Satyam Patel And this is _TOTALLY_ the time and place to express that opinion. He we was just *asking* for it, having that logo in his profile. Who does he think he is?!
The only thing that urked me about this video is the fact that the guy narrating the video said a pod sitting in "air", but its not air, its a vacuum, and there is no air in a vacuum.
14supersonic It's 1/1000th atmospheric pressure inside the tube according to SpaceX's design (www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha.pdf, page 24)
+Jason you could say the same of TV, Phones, Internet... we actually live in a great golden age. even tho we want to see "living in space" happen. there's always a future to look out for. but it's easier to get a hold of every developemtn in the word, now that we have internet. my parents did not. our generation actually has all the scify stuff our parents wanted. :)
How does something long, thin and straight with very close clearance tolerances to the tube its travelling in go around sharpish bends without hitting the walls of the tube, especially when it'll alleged to be travelling at supersonic speeds? Thus, what happens if you can't build the tube in a straight line from A to B?
I thought that Mondo's concept was proven to be unconventional because you would need a to use a lot of energy to not only move but to keep the magnetic lift on and too expensive to be operational. Also isn't it very expensive to use the metal for there magnetic base?
Elon will be considered far more important in the history books. The personal computing revolution will pale in scope compared to the power, and transportation revolution that Elon is catalyzing. The internet democratized information. Elon is democratizing transportation. Hopefully power is next.
Hey Hyperloop already exists in the construction game called OPENTTD "old transpot tycoon" called (Vaccum tube train) that's where that idea comes from, in the game reaches the speed of 4100 km
I love how my 1979 Usborne Book of the Future essentially had this concept outlined. A pressurized bullet shaped passenger pod in a friction-less vacuum tube and propelled by mag-lev... Although the concept drawing was a much fatter pod.
The hyperloop is most easily laid down in water (oceans and large lakes). The tracks are necessarily buoyant and are easily tethered to the sea floor. Norway has begun research in this area but this needs to be explored here at headquarters. Further, the land acquisition problems and environmental impacts are greatly mitigated. In anticipation of that first major accident (a certainty since my corp (RTI) will not be doing the engineering) I would much rather hit the water at 400mph than the hard ground. Given escape pod engineering in passenger compartments, that 400mph thump might be surprisingly smooth.
Realistic project doesn't need hype. When shinkansen was first built, nobody(aside from people involved in it) knew the project even existed. Only after they started the construction, people started to talk about "bullet train(dangan-ressha in Japanese)(there was no official name for it then)". I'm very skeptical of this project and what they are really after. I'll believe it when I see it.
+quarlic It won't happen any time soon. We are definitely over a decade away from that. If anything shorter versions will be made from places like San Fran to LA. Nothing big anytime soon.
An aeroplane is a 50m long tube that uses up a lot of energy. A hyperloop is a hundred kilometre tube that still uses a lot of energy, but considerably less. The question is How long before the hyperloop breaks even with the aeroplane in terms of costs...
Politicians need to take a lesson from this ... and incentivize government departments and employees to reduce costs and become more efficient to the benefit of all of us. And hopefully, the federal government will not get in the way on the hyper loop effort ... history shows demonstrably that the federal government creates far more problems than it solves through regulation, tax policy and much more. Time to take an Elon Musk approach to government.
+Xentradi97 I was there too. The guy told us that we couldn't apply because of the US national security policy with long range rocket technology, technology which could be applied to missiles.
I love videos like these! They feature the optimism and enthusiasm that the next generation of innovators has for greatness! I can't wait to see what the next 10-20 years looks like with all these bright minds entering the workplace!
I don't understand why basically all of these team have got it wrong... they don't even have the dimensions and relationship of pod size to tube diameter anywhere near correct for the thing to work if you're going to travel at the speed proposed...even with maglev system you need less than a 50% ratio and for transonic speed travel you need a low pressure tube to even make it work and that's why Elon has an air compressor in front to lower the pressure and for use as an air cushion for lift.
I'm so excited for this to ship out. The sad thing is though that by being in Canada, I'll have to watch all these systems ship out in major US cities before it'll ever even reach my city, or even Canada for that matter.
I had the pleasure of being there since I live in College Station. Such a cool experience. Honestly the science is way over my head but it was cool seeing the displays and the basic ideas.
what I would like is to get a super computer or a quantum computer to take all these designs and choosing the best aspect of each one to make the best hyper loop pod
Cool ! Anybody plan to use low pressure helium in the tubes to get a break on structural requirements and can the use of hemp be used in it's construction, like Ford had plans for using hemp in building cars in the 1940's?
You can hear this great argument over and over again: "It will be a smooth ride because it has to." No word about how it could be achieved, no word about how challenging it is to be that precise at this incredibly high speed. And that's not the only design flaw in this "great idea". I'm really surprised many people don't see what the Hyperloop really is, even though it is in his name. It's a hype, nothing more. It may be technically achievable (also I even doubt this) but in no way it would come close to the proposed efficiency. It would consume huge amounts of energy and be really expensive to build. I get it that uneducated people couldn't judge it, they think Musk did Tesla so he could do everything. But what really surprises me over and over again is, how engineering students, and even fully trained engineers, ignore the fundamental problems with the design. These are not minor issues, these are claims against the laws of physic. I could only warn everyone to not invest in this, you will loose your money.
expansion joins? what sort of material will they use for heat expansion that wont rt and cause the tub to be down....??? HYPER LOOP looks good on paper......but....not practical
+M Syakae this is in a vacuum. Thus explains the incredible speeds and uses hover tech so no friction. I not sure if I'm 100% correct but I know this is not like a bullet train
+M Syakae There are two designs being considered. Using a cushion of air and maglev. The cushion of air most groups have found to not work well, so are using maglev. Maglev uses a rotating magnet above a non-magnetic material to create a force (see Faraday's laws). Bullet trains will travel nowhere near the speeds that a hyperloop pod will, this is due to the pod travelling in a low pressure tube.
Even at 0.5 bar, how will this system deal with: 1. Heat created by air friction 2. Shock waves propagating through such an enclosed space from Mach 1+ speeds
First of all it would be in a near vacuum so no air friction. Also they most likely will not be attaining speeds over or at Mach 1. They could get close but probably wouldn't want to get to that speed. Further back to the vacuum, breaking the sound barrier in a vacuum doesn't mean anything, nothing happens.
Matthew Christian I believe one of the most difficult barriers will be how to achieve anything remotely approaching vacuum in a cylinder of this volume.
Yes, it goes like this: Woman on PA: You have reached the end of the line. BAM! Joking aside, braking is not an issue. Getting up to speed and maintaining that speed is the problem.
Um no mate. I'm pretty sure using a spinning propeller (they call it a metallic blade) just for a brake would not work very well. It's not even the tip of the problems with the logic behind this.
What they're going to end up doing is making a subway and declaring themselves geniuses at the same time. This is economically or practically feasible. The idea of a high speed tube travel is actually extremely old but abandon due to complexity and economical problems. It's easier to travel above ground on high speed rail.
+Bones Jones It will seem normal, because the tube will be it's own sealed atmosphere. It would be like dropping a ball in a car vs. dropping it outside of the window. As long as your windows are rolled up and the car is moving at a constant speed, the ball will fall straight down--much the same with sound vibrations moving through the air.
Breaking the speed of sound causes a shock wave in front of the vehicle, however I latter found out that this tube will be a vacuum therefor no sound, no sound barrier.
IF this is possible, 12ft long pod, traveling at supersonic speeds, a small failure of a control pod distance system from the actual outer tube would have devastating consequences traveling at high speeds, like a shell firing out of a tank with a small stone in the way, but you have passengers in the inner pod, possibly like throwing an egg box on a brick wall. !
A thought: How do you deal with passenger movement in-transit? Are passenger weights and random movements (e.g. child bouncing up and down) going to have an impact on the system? I guess it's a matter of if this is to be a heavy vehicle or a light pod. If you're worried about millimeters of movement and energy efficiency then the weight and movement (and weight distribution) of passengers seems like it could be a major factor to need to account for. But Awesome stuff! I want to ride ;)
700 miles per hour.. hmmm if its being held up by air and go that fast, that means it would be making stops every five seconds and people's heads being pushed up against the seat very hardly.
Back in the late '60's there was a plan to connect Washington DC by fast rail to nearby major cities, underground, with an evacuated gravity-swing tube (like a pendulum) to maximize the overall speed.... The Tube would've been carved through deep bedrock by automated drilling machines.... The disadvantages few and minor except in case of loss of vacuum and getting stuck a half mile under the surface and having to climb the escape-stairs to get out....
a big question about the hyperloop is as well political. who is going to own it? is state-owned public transportation or private? you're not going to have a number of hyperloops between the same cities. Maybe it should be like the railway and train/(pods) or the airports and airlines? But can they build pods that can be customised for different types of travellers and companies brands? The technology seems it wouldn't. Can there be a Boing and Airbus in this space?
It's completely private company. The company name on stock market is publicaly available to investors, just like Facebook. The government does nothing.
3:14 - "The idea of traveling at speeds of 200mph..." - As a german i had to laugh at this.
Haha got itt!
+Safety why?
+James Pfaff You don't need a supercar to reach 300kmh. A well motorized standard BMW gets there easily and that's def. not a supercar.
+Safety Name one standard BMW that reaches speeds of 300km/h!
+chelez M3's and M5's or even the non M models :)
It wouldn't surprise me if one day Elon Musk announces that he is the Ironman in an interview.
Elon Musk. The man. The myth. The legend.
apple sucks
+Satyam Patel And this is _TOTALLY_ the time and place to express that opinion. He we was just *asking* for it, having that logo in his profile. Who does he think he is?!
+John Nelson real Iron man
+John Nelson --> LIVING Legend!
..and they are both completely overrated
The only thing that urked me about this video is the fact that the guy narrating the video said a pod sitting in "air", but its not air, its a vacuum, and there is no air in a vacuum.
+14supersonic its also not a vacuum, so there is actually some air. It's much closer to a vacuum though.
hhhmmmm... If I recalled Elon mentioned that the hyperloop was a "vacuum tube". I don't know I have to look into it.
14supersonic
It's 1/1000th atmospheric pressure inside the tube according to SpaceX's design (www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/hyperloop_alpha.pdf, page 24)
If it actually was a vacuum these things would probably not be shaped so aerodynamic either
Jupkees That makes sense when you think about it.
Ah... The smart side of America... Now that's what I like to see... There is hope after all
+Dino Prašo The smart side of America thrives on stupidity.
+Dino Prašo Not to detract from your excitement or anything, but these were very international teams.
You sound pretty ignorant.
chigimonky Thank you!
Coming from the guy with a weaboo haircut.
Japanese Bullet Train = 275 mph. Maglev = 360 mph. Hyperloop = 700 mph!
oterenceo 700 mph? that's just in theory. reply back when u come back to reality.
No more plane rides for traveling states or provinces in their own country :D
+Xenophene01 Yea it will be great.
+Jason you could say the same of TV, Phones, Internet... we actually live in a great golden age. even tho we want to see "living in space" happen. there's always a future to look out for.
but it's easier to get a hold of every developemtn in the word, now that we have internet. my parents did not. our generation actually has all the scify stuff our parents wanted. :)
+Xenophene01 They still have to build the tracks. Going to be a while.
+Alex Vizzini True and they must be maintained. So earthquakes or plate shifts must be accounted for.
***** Then we better start soon so we get to enjoy it.
1:53 redhead is there for looks
1:05 "... levitating on a cushion of air, ..." In vacuum?
Yea he said imagine. Its levitating using magnetic levitation so it can be in a vacuum.
2:31. Sony z3 compact spotting. What's the case on it ?
This sounds cool as fuck
Coz it is
No mention of the iPhone?
I don't get why the Hendo people are there. Did they also submit a pod design or are they just there for some tangential visibility?
Ah, got it.
www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10803796/arx-pax-hendo-hoverboard-hyperloop-pod-spacex
How does something long, thin and straight with very close clearance tolerances to the tube its travelling in go around sharpish bends without hitting the walls of the tube, especially when it'll alleged to be travelling at supersonic speeds? Thus, what happens if you can't build the tube in a straight line from A to B?
i really want to know though, how is the tube going to remain vacuum if the pod hovers on air instead of magnets?
Musk is our future
i want that miniature Falcon Heavy!
+Abi Nubli I'm sure they would get hundreds of orders if they put some up on their store!
+MomentousGaming p
Why you guys didn't make interview with the winning team ( MIT team ) ? 🤔
I thought that Mondo's concept was proven to be unconventional because you would need a to use a lot of energy to not only move but to keep the magnetic lift on and too expensive to be operational. Also isn't it very expensive to use the metal for there magnetic base?
wow, i didn't expected that much of diversity, that really cool.
+Bonbadil Moi ya fo real. science rules and those guys know lot of stuff
Agreed, don't pay attention to the media. They create narratives that sell like good guys vs. bad guys. It is way overdone for ratings.
4:27 when she says you can come over.. haha
A pod race, spoiler: jar jar dies
Now, THIS is podracing!
+Gabriel Chaix If only...
What is the song used in the background?
Seeing our engineers and creators of tomorrow is my favorite thing of this video. All the green nerds.
1:13 "Slightly faster" Boeing 747 top speed 570 mph, 700-800 mph. It's so easy to break the sound barrier!
elon is the new steve jobs
+ Ben Carter elon musk is the new elon musnk ¬¬.
+Ben Carter Space Rockets > iPods
+Ben Carter Elon Musk is far more important and far more ambitious
Elon will be considered far more important in the history books. The personal computing revolution will pale in scope compared to the power, and transportation revolution that Elon is catalyzing. The internet democratized information. Elon is democratizing transportation. Hopefully power is next.
ELON>STEVE
Hey Hyperloop already exists in the construction game called OPENTTD "old transpot tycoon" called (Vaccum tube train) that's where that idea comes from, in the game reaches the speed of 4100 km
Elon Musk has always been & will always be my biggest role model, im jealous from all those people who got to work with/for him :/
No, Obama is better.
So far I haven't seen any acutal models or proposals published from this competition. Are those confidential or just hard to show in a meaningful way?
omg those guys hugging each other at the end lmao
I love how my 1979 Usborne Book of the Future essentially had this concept outlined. A pressurized bullet shaped passenger pod in a friction-less vacuum tube and propelled by mag-lev... Although the concept drawing was a much fatter pod.
The hyperloop is most easily laid down in water (oceans and large lakes). The tracks are necessarily buoyant and are easily tethered to the sea floor. Norway has begun research in this area but this needs to be explored here at headquarters. Further, the land acquisition problems and environmental impacts are greatly mitigated. In anticipation of that first major accident (a certainty since my corp (RTI) will not be doing the engineering) I would much rather hit the water at 400mph than the hard ground. Given escape pod engineering in passenger compartments, that 400mph thump might be surprisingly smooth.
Wauch! Even some Dutch students! Awesome!
Realistic project doesn't need hype.
When shinkansen was first built, nobody(aside from people involved in it) knew the project even existed. Only after they started the construction, people started to talk about "bullet train(dangan-ressha in Japanese)(there was no official name for it then)".
I'm very skeptical of this project and what they are really after.
I'll believe it when I see it.
I heard that the hyperloop from New York City to California will be completed in three years is that correct?
That's never going to happen in 3 years
+macdel69 Oh so when will it be completed?
+quarlic It won't happen any time soon. We are definitely over a decade away from that. If anything shorter versions will be made from places like San Fran to LA. Nothing big anytime soon.
The Hyperloop is like a gun 😊
How do you breath in it
جامعة القاهرة، رفعتو راسنا، حسام من السودان :)
Get the scientists working on the tube technology!
Dell xps 15 in the background at 2:55
Well how does it know that it will work?
An aeroplane is a 50m long tube that uses up a lot of energy. A hyperloop is a hundred kilometre tube that still uses a lot of energy, but considerably less. The question is How long before the hyperloop breaks even with the aeroplane in terms of costs...
Politicians need to take a lesson from this ... and incentivize government departments and employees to reduce costs and become more efficient to the benefit of all of us. And hopefully, the federal government will not get in the way on the hyper loop effort ... history shows demonstrably that the federal government creates far more problems than it solves through regulation, tax policy and much more. Time to take an Elon Musk approach to government.
Elon Musk's competition? Should call it a job interview for future Elon Musk's employees.
Xentradi97 yeah the title is misleading that's why i disliked it!
Actually my Greek friend who went to the competition was told he couldn't apply to work at SpaceX because of his nationality.
Chris Chong that's a bs. Check who's who in his company and Silicon Valley in general. It's crawling with foreign talents
+Xentradi97 I was there too. The guy told us that we couldn't apply because of the US national security policy with long range rocket technology, technology which could be applied to missiles.
oh I see. Well that makes sense. That should be the same in any country that are sensitive to country's defense tech.
TU Delft repping the Netherlands. This looks like such an awesome idea. Would love to see what comes of it.
Bernie Sanders would make Hyperloop become a reality
Super Capacitor
Yeah and then the USA would be full of Muslims and zionist
If something goes wrong, everyone's going splats, splats.
I love videos like these! They feature the optimism and enthusiasm that the next generation of innovators has for greatness! I can't wait to see what the next 10-20 years looks like with all these bright minds entering the workplace!
its like this film the snowpiercer
I hope this project succeeds. It will be a great advance in the future of transportation.
Wonder if they take into account the curvature of the earth in construction... they'd have to. Some very complicated engineering for those curves.
More the competition, better the product. Hyperloop should be the future of transportation for the next 50 so or more years.
gambit at 1:35
I WAS HERE THIS IS MY SCHOOL. ELON MUSK SHOWING UP WAS THE WILDEST THING EVER IT WAS AWESOME
I don't understand why basically all of these team have got it wrong... they don't even have the dimensions and relationship of pod size to tube diameter anywhere near correct for the thing to work if you're going to travel at the speed proposed...even with maglev system you need less than a 50% ratio and for transonic speed travel you need a low pressure tube to even make it work and that's why Elon has an air compressor in front to lower the pressure and for use as an air cushion for lift.
I'm so excited for this to ship out. The sad thing is though that by being in Canada, I'll have to watch all these systems ship out in major US cities before it'll ever even reach my city, or even Canada for that matter.
I had the pleasure of being there since I live in College Station. Such a cool experience. Honestly the science is way over my head but it was cool seeing the displays and the basic ideas.
"Riding on a cushion of air", IN A VACUUM??? Go back to College, my friend!
He mentioned Pakist. Cool
what I would like is to get a super computer or a quantum computer to take all these designs and choosing the best aspect of each one to make the best hyper loop pod
So why can't we have mini maglevs delivering packages and food everywhere? Imagine the efficiency of tube networks transporting goods around.
heres a problem what if at a hyperloop station someone falls into the path and the computers fail. your gonna have to operate it manually
This should had been done decades ago. We should allready have it.
In the rest of the world we call that a "high speed railway" and most of the countries already have that.
+Bernd Lauert You can't be serious right? No high speed train is even close to reaching 700 mph...
That's so awesome am all for it and I hope they figure out a way to make this idea main stream
Cool ! Anybody plan to use low pressure helium in the tubes to get a break on structural requirements and can the use of hemp be used in it's construction, like Ford had plans for using hemp in building cars in the 1940's?
Elon Musk is such a badass
You can hear this great argument over and over again: "It will be a smooth ride because it has to." No word about how it could be achieved, no word about how challenging it is to be that precise at this incredibly high speed. And that's not the only design flaw in this "great idea". I'm really surprised many people don't see what the Hyperloop really is, even though it is in his name. It's a hype, nothing more. It may be technically achievable (also I even doubt this) but in no way it would come close to the proposed efficiency. It would consume huge amounts of energy and be really expensive to build.
I get it that uneducated people couldn't judge it, they think Musk did Tesla so he could do everything. But what really surprises me over and over again is, how engineering students, and even fully trained engineers, ignore the fundamental problems with the design. These are not minor issues, these are claims against the laws of physic.
I could only warn everyone to not invest in this, you will loose your money.
i believe the airlines should sell their planes and invest in this technology
I love seeing a billionaire so passionate and involved in actually attempting to better humanity as a whole.
expansion joins? what sort of material will they use for heat expansion that wont rt and cause the tub to be down....??? HYPER LOOP looks good on paper......but....not practical
talk about outsourcing
3:48 Paul Rudd?
I hope the Hyper-loop comes to Texas and NOT the old high speed rail from the 1970's.
basically it's like the Bullet Train in Japan
That is wrong on so many levels...
Eric Luo how? if you say so, explained to me the diff
+M Syakae this is in a vacuum. Thus explains the incredible speeds and uses hover tech so no friction. I not sure if I'm 100% correct but I know this is not like a bullet train
Eric Luo i want to know how's this hover tech diff than the Japanese bullet train that operates on two magnets repelling on one another
+M Syakae There are two designs being considered. Using a cushion of air and maglev. The cushion of air most groups have found to not work well, so are using maglev. Maglev uses a rotating magnet above a non-magnetic material to create a force (see Faraday's laws).
Bullet trains will travel nowhere near the speeds that a hyperloop pod will, this is due to the pod travelling in a low pressure tube.
I wonder if they'll super-cool the tracks
My problem with it is, since it's controlled entirely with computers, how easily accessible is it to hackers?
Even at 0.5 bar, how will this system deal with:
1. Heat created by air friction
2. Shock waves propagating through such an enclosed space from Mach 1+ speeds
First of all it would be in a near vacuum so no air friction. Also they most likely will not be attaining speeds over or at Mach 1. They could get close but probably wouldn't want to get to that speed. Further back to the vacuum, breaking the sound barrier in a vacuum doesn't mean anything, nothing happens.
Matthew Christian I believe one of the most difficult barriers will be how to achieve anything remotely approaching vacuum in a cylinder of this volume.
wait can it stop because speed too fast
+The Real Sans From Undertale Yes it can, they have built a wall at the end of the line.
So they stop by crashing into the wall at the end of the line and killing everyone on it?
Yes, it goes like this:
Woman on PA: You have reached the end of the line.
BAM!
Joking aside, braking is not an issue. Getting up to speed and maintaining that speed is the problem.
Um no mate. I'm pretty sure using a spinning propeller (they call it a metallic blade) just for a brake would not work very well. It's not even the tip of the problems with the logic behind this.
izybit izybit makes sense
What they're going to end up doing is making a subway and declaring themselves geniuses at the same time. This is economically or practically feasible. The idea of a high speed tube travel is actually extremely old but abandon due to complexity and economical problems. It's easier to travel above ground on high speed rail.
This is going to be the biggest thing since the invention of the automobile.
Wow cool! I wonder what happens though when you break the speed of sound inside a tube?
+Bones Jones It will seem normal, because the tube will be it's own sealed atmosphere. It would be like dropping a ball in a car vs. dropping it outside of the window. As long as your windows are rolled up and the car is moving at a constant speed, the ball will fall straight down--much the same with sound vibrations moving through the air.
Breaking the speed of sound causes a shock wave in front of the vehicle, however I latter found out that this tube will be a vacuum therefor no sound, no sound barrier.
Check out the transportation in the D.U.M.B's Deep Underground Military Bases. This kind of transport has existed for awhile.
Yay for South Africa :) @2:30
IF this is possible, 12ft long pod, traveling at supersonic speeds, a small failure of a control pod distance system from the actual outer tube would have devastating consequences traveling at high speeds, like a shell firing out of a tank with a small stone in the way, but you have passengers in the inner pod, possibly like throwing an egg box on a brick wall. !
A thought: How do you deal with passenger movement in-transit? Are passenger weights and random movements (e.g. child bouncing up and down) going to have an impact on the system? I guess it's a matter of if this is to be a heavy vehicle or a light pod. If you're worried about millimeters of movement and energy efficiency then the weight and movement (and weight distribution) of passengers seems like it could be a major factor to need to account for.
But Awesome stuff! I want to ride ;)
Can't wait to see these Hyperloops built in Japan, China, Europe. Theres no way we're getting it here.
I wonder if the idea was taken from the late 70's movie "Loguns Run".................
I'd like to be half as smart as the high school kids!
700 miles per hour.. hmmm if its being held up by air and go that fast, that means it would be making stops every five seconds and people's heads being pushed up against the seat very hardly.
Not so far out of realization. The developer of the original NYNY Subway System had a similar idea.
These are the people to change the world.
Back in the late '60's there was a plan to connect Washington DC by fast rail to nearby major cities, underground, with an evacuated gravity-swing tube (like a pendulum) to maximize the overall speed.... The Tube would've been carved through deep bedrock by automated drilling machines.... The disadvantages few and minor except in case of loss of vacuum and getting stuck a half mile under the surface and having to climb the escape-stairs to get out....
This reminds of being back in Robotics, what a time.
What an awesome time to be alive...
all those genius. i can only imagine the math, the science and other that they have mastered.
Have you tried filling the tubes with water?
Its just like a horizontal elevator.
a big question about the hyperloop is as well political. who is going to own it? is state-owned public transportation or private? you're not going to have a number of hyperloops between the same cities. Maybe it should be like the railway and train/(pods) or the airports and airlines? But can they build pods that can be customised for different types of travellers and companies brands? The technology seems it wouldn't. Can there be a Boing and Airbus in this space?
It's completely private company. The company name on stock market is publicaly available to investors, just like Facebook. The government does nothing.
We were talking vacuum tube travel as a joke 22 yrs ago.., it will be here sooner than we can imagine
Go Elon👽👍
Our cats call it the ✨super-tube✨( supersonic)