Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Design a pod

If you have been thinking about a cool hyperloop pod design, the time has come for you - just submit your design here at the new hyperloop website put up by SpaceX, open-sourced.  SpaceX is building a test track on which to test those designs a year from now, June 2016.

Two years ago in August (2013) Elon Musk revealed his proposal for the transport plan - even though neither he nor his companies are developing a commercial hyperloop:

"While we are not developing a commercial Hyperloop ourselves, we are interested in helping to accelerate development of a functional Hyperloop prototype."

Two startups did begin development and both of them plan to build test tracks. If I were in their shoes, I'd have to wonder exactly when and to what extent I might soon be competing with Elon Musk.

(cont'd tomorrow)

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