Hyperloop's first flight

摘要

Is the future of transport barrelling towards us? Over the past week, several groups in the US unveiled early models for the Hyperloop, Elon Musk's imagined "fifth mode" of travel - after planes, trains, cars and boats. Musk, co-founder of SpaceX, first published his sketches for the Hyperloop in August 2013. In his vision, pods of people would shoot down low-pressure tubes at speeds up to 1220 kilometres per hour, propelled by linear induction motors similar to those used on roller coasters.