The future of transport began perhaps to take shape in the American desert, with the first public trial of a propulsion system that would operate a futuristic project of high-speed train, the “Hyperloop”.
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Faced with a? group of guests seated in bleachers, a kind of sled slid along a small track installed in the desert near Las Vegas, in the western United States, before slowing and stopping on a bed of sand and a cloud dust, as noted an AFP reporter.
in the future, proven by the emerging American company Hyperloop One system should propel capsules carrying passengers or goods on cushions of air in a tube at low pressure, allowing them to go in 30 minutes some 600 kilometers from Los Angeles to San Francisco.
the idea of Hyperloop, considered by some as science fiction was launched three years ago by the American billionaire Elon Musk, who is also behind electric vehicles Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX.
“it is significant for us as a team now,” said co-founder Hyperloop One, Shervin Pishevar, to the public sitting in front of the electric rail.
“we are on sacred ground for us. The team has worked incredibly hard to get to what we call the sample of our Hawk Kitty “Pishevar said, referring to the people of North Carolina where the Wright brothers made fly the first powered airplane in 1903.
– speeds almost supersonic –
“the purpose of this essay is not only moving the sled,” said Brogan BamBrogan, one of the cofounders of Hyperloop One
<. p> “it is devise a system of acceleration that can lead to scale passenger and freight, and thus lower costs” in order to allow the use of this potential technology in the world.
BamBrogan explained that sled evolve into a kind of frame for the capsules, capable of accelerating to 640 km / h in a few seconds, with the long-term idea of reaching nearly supersonic speeds.
“You will not feel more acceleration that of an airplane taking off, “he said BamBrogan. After acceleration, the capsule will glide over long distances, and thus ensure a peaceful transport and low power consumption, he said.
the emerging company promised a scale test and real speed in a tube two kilometers by the end of the year, in this desert.
there were other promises, like Rob Lloyd, executive director deHyperloop One, that he said. “we will be moving merchandise in 2019, and transporting passengers safely in a Hyperloop in 2021″
– “will cause the physical world what Internet to digital” –
One day before the test, the company announced investments of $ 80 million from various companies, including the French state-owned SNCF, very active in the high-speed transport in Europe, and GE Ventures, branch investments of US conglomerate General Electric.
in fact, Hyperloop One already has alliances with industry experts as the French Systra (subsidiary of SNCF) or the German Deutsche Bahn Engineering and Consulting.
So sure is the company of project progress that asked businesses, governments, citizens and academics around the world submit proposals for places where they could be built systems.
“the competition is a call to the brightest worldwide to give us ideas, “Lloyd said, on the site of the trial, and said the company will build the system in the winning sites.
” When a new system is built transport in a city that had nothing, will change the lives of people, “he said on the eve of the event Mathieu Dunant, vice president of Systra for northern Europe.
” We see potential not only in transport between cities, but within them, “he said.
Lloyd, meanwhile, envisions a future in which factories produce goods to order and can be transported quickly to distant sites, and even send in autonomous vehicles.
it also is optimistic about a future in which there will be no traffic jams in cities.
“I think this will make the physical world what internet did to the digital world,” he said Andrew Liu, vice president of the multinational engineering AECOM, one of the collaborating firms Hyperloop One.
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