Virgin Hyperloop shows off the future: mass transport in floating magnetic pods
By Rollo Ross
(Reuters) – In the desert merely north of Las Vegas, an prolonged white metal tube sits at the base of the mountains, promising to in some unspecified time in the future revolutionize journey.
That is the place Virgin Hyperloop, whose companions embody Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, is creating the experience for passenger pods which will hurtle at speeds of as a lot as 750 miles an hour (1,200 kph) by way of nearly air-free vacuum tunnels using magnetic levitation.
“It will actually really feel like an aircraft at take-off and whenever you’re at tempo,” talked about co-founder and Chief Executive Josh Giegel, who gave Reuters an distinctive tour of the pod used in its November examine run, the place it was propelled alongside a 500 meter (1,640 ft)tunnel.
“You won’t even have turbulence because of our system is especially completely able to …