{"id":70923,"date":"2017-07-15T20:20:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T03:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/this-supersonic-speed-transit-system-just-completed-a-major-test"},"modified":"2017-07-15T20:20:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T03:20:56","slug":"this-supersonic-speed-transit-system-just-completed-a-major-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/this-supersonic-speed-transit-system-just-completed-a-major-test","title":{"rendered":"This Supersonic-Speed Transit System Just Completed a Major Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hyperloop One this week announced that it completed the first full-scale test of its high-speed transportation system<\/a>, a move the company hailed as the burgeoning technology\u2019s \u201cKitty Hawk moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The test vehicle only reached 70 miles per hour, a tenth of the company\u2019s eventual target speed. But the firm felt assured enough to set another phase of testing for later this year, when they hope to reach 250 miles per hour. Eventually, the system could reach a top speed of 700 miles per hour, nearly the speed of sound.<\/p>\n

The Hyperloop\u2019s potential velocity has helped it captivate the public\u2019s imagination ever since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk popularized the concept in 2012<\/a>. But the proposed system, a sort of high-speed train that uses aerodynamic pods propelled through a vacuum cylinder, is not just about speed, according to many of the people developing it since Musk open-sourced the idea. It\u2019s about changing how we think about moving people and cargo, a $1.48 trillion industry in the United States alone.<\/p>\n

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Hyperloop One this week announced that it completed the first full-scale test of its high-speed transportation system, a move the company hailed as the burgeoning technology\u2019s \u201cKitty Hawk moment.\u201d The test vehicle only reached 70 miles per hour, a tenth of the company\u2019s eventual target speed. But the firm felt assured enough to set another [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}