457km/h....... This is insane!

in busy •  6 years ago 

Once again a competition helping to drive development of the futuristic hyperloop transport system held this year and has been won by the students of engineering from Munich (Germany).

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Picture has been taken from www.bbc.com

The hyperloop idea involves passengers in pods travelling at very high speeds down sealed tunnels. There is minimum air resistance and friction in the tunnels.

Three teams sent pods down the short test track to see how fast they could go and the results were tremendous as the winner team's pod hit 457km/h (290mph) on a 1.2km (0.75 mile) test track.

Run by the SpaceX aerospace company, the competition aims to refine the technologies that could underpin the super-fast transport system.

This is the third successive win for the Technical University of Munich team.

Technology Entrepreneur Elon Musk was also present at the competition, he praised the participants and the competition also.

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