The system Hyperloop, which hopes to radically change public transport in a few years, showed a capacity of impressive acceleration in a public first held Wednesday in the Nevada desert.
the capsule prototype which lead people through tubes, reached 187 km / h in 1.1 seconds.
the team behind the Hyperloop, which is being driven by the founder of Tesla, Elon Musk, plans to start transporting cargo to about 1,200 km / h in 2019.
the passenger would start operating in 2021. the company estimates that can travel between Los Angeles and San Francisco-the first line it plans to build, about 600km- in 30 minutes.
“it is real. it is happening,” said the executive director of Hyperloop Rob Lloyd.
Musk first spoke of the idea in 2013, urging others to take up the challenge, while his company was working on electric cars and solar energy.
the technology uses capsules which moves in an environment of low friction with magnets and electricity.
But among others still unresolved, issues is the issue of security.
In a closed as the Hyperloop system, how will be evacuated passengers if an emergency occurs?
And people will want to travel within a tube, without windows or vent? Would you want?
Although some believe that Hyperloop here to stay, here are some of the reasons why the project has its detractors. Among them, James Moore, program director of Transportation Engineering of the University of Southern California.
“I certainly will not say that nothing will come of technology Hyperloop” he told the agency AP. “But I doubt he has a dramatic effect on how we move people and material goods in the short term.”
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