Hyperloop One Conducts First Full Systems Test But Only Traveled 70MPH (jalopnik.com)

Thelasko shares a report from Jalopnik about Hyperloop One's first full systems Hyperloop test: In the test, Hyperloop says its vehicle traveled the first portion of a track using magnetic levitation in a vacuum environment, and reached 70 mph. It's a significant leap past the company's test a year ago, which sent a sled down a track for a grand total of two seconds. And while that's not the lighting-fast speed that Hyperloop Ones says its futurist transport system could go, the company says this test -- conducted privately on May 12 -- is only Phase 1. Hyperloop One's in the process of the next phase, now aiming for 250 mph. "By achieving full vacuum, we essentially invented our own sky in a tube, as if you're flying at 200,000 feet in the air," said Shervin Pishevar, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Hyperloop One. "For the first time in over 100 years, a new mode of transportation has been introduced. Hyperloop is real, and it's here now."

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It's Here Now

[omnichad]

This must be one of those new definitions of "here now"

Re:It's Here Now

[nukenerd]

While it sounds really cool.....I'm wondering of the practicality of it in becoming anywhere near a mass transit system.

It will never be a mass transit system. If a Hyperloop line is built it will only ever be a novelty attraction, perhaps for tourists going to Las Vegas or some Arab Sheik's toy in the desert. At the speeds they are ultimately aiming for it will need to be built in almost straight lines, so across anything but flat landscapes it will need some spectacular viaducts or tunnels - all costly to build to say nothing of the running costs.

It could be built. Anything that does not contravine the laws of physics can be built if you throw enough money and ego at it, and Musk has enough of both. But it will not be operated for long once Musk or that Sheik get bored with it.

Re: It's Here Now

[nukenerd]

It will never move!
It will never sail!
It will never fly!
It will never break the sound barrier!
It will never make it to orbit!

Faggots like you must be exhausted being constantly wrong.. Over, and over, and over, and over, and over.

Your examples of "It will never .." are all technical attributes. If you actually read my post instead of knee-jerking I actually said "It will never be a mass transit system", which is an economic attribute, and you might also have spotted my words "It could be built". I'll go further and say that a Hyperloop line probably will be built, but only one or two fairly short ones - and soon becoming mere tourists' novelties.

My point was that it would fail as business proposition, only propped up by Musk's money and that of the fans who invest in him.

BTW, I don't think you know what a "mass transit system" means. It means something like the New York or London underground systems, or BART, shifting millions of people for short distances. I don't think Musk would want to comapre Hyperloop with any of those anyway.

For the first time in over 100 years... Segway!?

[Anonymous Coward]

What about the Segway? That massively changed how people take tours of downtown areas.

How do you breathe on a plane?

[Brannon]

Quick, let's ground all aircraft before everyone dies.

Re:Serious question

[MattskEE]

Implosion bomb? What makes you think that a vacuum chamber (~14psi) will implode with bomb-like force in the event of an implosion?

Humans have built plenty of infrastructure operating at much higher pressure differentials (like water, gas, and oil pipelines) than the paltry pressure of a vacuum.

Cool prediction, Bro.

[Brannon]

I'll put that one right next to: 1. Electric cars will never happen 2. Self driving cars will never happen 3. Solar power will never happen 4. SpaceX will never happen