Technology Hyperloop One completes first successful full scale test

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Hyperloop One completed the first full-scale test of its hyperloop technology in a vacuum environment on May 12th, the company announced today. In the test, the company’s hyperloop vehicle — which uses magnetic levitation, or mag-lev, technology — pulled 2 Gs while reaching 70 miles per hour down the length of the company’s test track in Nevada.

More: Hyperloop One had its first full-system test of ultrafast transportation system (12. July 2017)

While this sounds perhaps a bit tame on the surface, it's somewhat more impressive when you consider that it travelled in an artificial vacuum and was magnetically levitated. It does sound quite challenging and expensive to build a track like this at the scale necessary for it to become useful and financially viable, though.

 

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More: Hyperloop One had its first full-system test of ultrafast transportation system (12. July 2017)

While this sounds perhaps a bit tame on the surface, it's somewhat more impressive when you consider that it travelled in an artificial vacuum and was magnetically levitated. It does sound quite challenging and expensive to build a track like this at the scale necessary for it to become useful and financially viable, though.

Yeah, I just read about that! Seems both very cool & pretty terrifying.... LOL