whilst public transport in some countries seems to get little attention,
or money sent on it, great leaps are being made in this new mass transit system, the Hyperloop, a team from
the Technical University of Munich has topped previous hyperloop speed records
with a capsule that hit 467 kilometres per hour, at a competition run by SpaceX, the WARR Hyperloop team, made up of over
40 students from the Technical University
of Munich, raced their prototype in the Hyperloop Pod Competition, held at
the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California on 22 July 2018,
it is the third time the aerospace company has run the competition, and the third time WARR Hyperloop has won, by reaching a top speed of 467 kilometres per hour, the team beat the record they set at last year's competition by almost 50 per cent,
as a point
of difference to previous competitions, the 2018 competing pods had to be
self-propelled, "That
was optional in the previous years; it was also possible to use SpaceX
technology," said WARR Hyperloop team leader Gabriele Semino. "But
we've had our own drive since 2017, this meant we were able to further develop
our concept in principle." WARR
Hyperloop's pod reached a record-breaking speed of 467 kilometres per hour at
the SpaceX competition, "The
tube in front of the SpaceX building in Los Angeles is only 1.2 kilometres
long, and the pod has to accelerate to full speed and then brake again within
this distance," said Semino. "This is a gigantic challenge. Our pod
accelerates five times faster than an airplane during take-off." crikey, that is fast, just think, in a few years time instead of taking the car, plane or train it could be, 'bye dear, I am just going podding!'
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