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[Usobuko]

US startup Hyperloop One on Friday disclosed a list of locations around the world vying to put near-supersonic rail transit system to the test.

The startup company keen to revolutionize the way people and cargo travel said that 35 contenders remained from a field of 2,600 teams in a Hyperloop One Grand Challenge launched in May 2015.

Hyperloop One, which has so far raised more than $160 million (EUR 145 million), was set on an idea laid out by billionaire Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind electric car company Tesla and private space exploration endeavor SpaceX.

Pods would rocket along rails through reduced-pressure tubes at speeds of 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) per hour.

Hyperloop One says the system offers better safety than passenger jets, lower build and maintenance costs than high-speed trains, and energy usage, per person, that is similar to a bicycle.

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[Kickz]

Make it happen by 2020

 

[Timbuktu]

Is $160 million a lot or not? I guess just for a short prototype?

 

[shaowebb]

 

[Usobuko]

Is $160 million a lot or not? I guess just for a short prototype?

In the grand scheme of things, no.

But this will perpetually be able to raise funds, so long as they can show progress and a workable vision.

 

[Quixzlizx]

Hyperloop seems like something Musk scrawled out on a napkin while he was bored.

I'm going to be pretty skeptical until I see it working. Is Musk even involved in this, or did he just open-source the idea?

 

[Graphics Horse]

Can't beat the safety record of zero deaths since 2012

 

[TDLink]

If this ever becomes a real usable transportation system and not just an abstract concept or prototype, it will change the world.

 

[Jezbollah]

Near supersonic? 750mph is beyond that.

 

[waveuponwave]

Is there even a concept of how it's supposed to work?

 

[sfedai0]

Assemble the lobbyists! Even if this becomes a viable transportation methid, I cant imagine the bureaucracy that will inevitably come.

 

[Reverend Funk]

Is there even a concept of how it's supposed to work?

It works like this *moves hand fast and makes a wooshing sound*

 

[Laekon]

Have they even made a working model? You can't start testing implementation if you haven't even shown that the theory works.

 

[Tadaima]

Hyperloop seems like something Musk scrawled out on a napkin while he was bored.

I'm going to be pretty skeptical until I see it working. Is Musk even involved in this, or did he just open-source the idea?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop_One

The concept of Hyperloop transportation was introduced and named by Elon Musk in August 2013, although he is not involved with Hyperloop One.

 

[Graphics Horse]

Have they even made a working model? You can't start testing implementation if you haven't even shown that the theory works.

They're building a full scale test tunnel in Las Vegas.

 

[milanbaros]

Not to try and halt progress but would these cities not just be better off going with standard high speed rail or maglev using decades of Japanese research and technology?

The maglev line in construction is Japan is set to run at a max over 500km/h.

 

[Guevara]

Not to try and halt progress but would these cities not just be better off going with standard high speed rail or maglev using decades of Japanese research and technology?

The maglev line in construction is Japan is set to run at a max over 500km/h.

God, do I wish we would just do this.

 

[Kickz]

Not to try and halt progress but would these cities not just be better off going with standard high speed rail or maglev using decades of Japanese research and technology?

The maglev line in construction is Japan is set to run at a max over 500km/h.

To slow

 

[pulsemyne]

Not to try and halt progress but would these cities not just be better off going with standard high speed rail or maglev using decades of Japanese research and technology?

In may ways Hyperloop could be cheaper as well as a lot faster. For example you could run hyperloops alongside existing road networks or above them without having to dig up massive sections of land like you do with rail. Also they are much more energy efficient than trains due to lack of air resistance.
Besides Hyperloop works much better for very long distance stuff, up and down Americas western seaboard is an ideal location for one.

 

[Futureman]

where are the cities per the topic title??

 

[Vermillion]

Not to try and halt progress but would these cities not just be better off going with standard high speed rail or maglev using decades of Japanese research and technology?

The maglev line in construction is Japan is set to run at a max over 500km/h.

Gotta go fast

 

[Graphics Horse]

where are the cities per the topic title??

Sydney and Melbourne; Shanghai and Hangzhou; Mumbai and Delhi, and London and Edinburgh.

The more I think about this the more unlikely it seems.

 

[titiklabingapat]

The real cost of any mega-infrastructure projects in the USA is not actual construction cost but the litigation and acquiring of private properties hence why any bullet train proposals cost tons of money. Hyperloop boosters conveniently leave this out.

The system is supposed to be easy to build yet here we are, 5 years later with no proof of concept at all. It's a pipe dream, people.

 

[shira]

Sydney and Melbourne; Shanghai and Hangzhou; Mumbai and Delhi, and London and Edinburgh.

The more I think about this the more unlikely it seems.

The China and Indian ones are hugely important

For America SF-->LA, LA-->LV

 

[Skellig Gra]

750 MPH in a small tube, I wonder how the average humans body would take that.

 

[Duane Cunningham]

KC -> Chicago please!

 

[obin_gam]

 

[kami_sama]

750 MPH in a small tube, I wonder how the average humans body would take that.

Not very different than subsonic planes, really. A little higher, but the max speed is reached slowly.

 

[SliceSabre]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop_One

Reading that makes me think if there was ever an accident you'd just be a pile of human mush mixed in with other piles of human mush.

 

[Ravensmash]

I'd be interested to see the plan for London.

Wonder if it would reach areas that large numbers commute from, but aren't classified as London (rightly so).