Successfully conducted the first test Hyperloop, the train of the future – La Jornada San Luis

The future of transport began 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.

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 braking and stop on a bed of sand and a cloud of dust as found Afp.

in the future, proven by the emerging US company Hyperloop One system should propel capsules carrying passengers or goods in air cushions in a tube at low pressure, which would allow them to travel in 30 minutes some 600 kilometers from Los Angeles to San Francisco.

the idea of ​​Hyperloop, considered by some as science fiction was launched ago three years by the American billionaire Elon Musk, who is behind Tesla electric vehicles and aerospace company SpaceX well. It is significant for us as a team time, said co-founder Hyperloop One, Shervin Pishevar, before the sitting public against 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 Kitty Hawk , Pishevar said of the people of North Carolina, where in 1903 the Wright brothers made fly the first powered airplane.

Maximum acceleration

the aim of this essay is not only moving the sled said Brogan BamBrogan, one of the cofounders of Hyperloop One. is to devise a system of acceleration that can carry passengers and freight, and lower costs , in order to allow the use of this potential technology in the world.

BamBrogan explained that the sled would evolve into a kind of frame for the capsules, can accelerate to 640 kilometers per hour in a few seconds, with the long-term idea of ​​reaching nearly supersonic speeds. You will not feel more acceleration than an airplane taking off. After the pulse, the capsule will glide over long distances and thus ensure a peaceful transport and low energy consumption said.

emerging company promised a real scale test and speed in a tube of two kilometers at the end of the year, in this desert. There were other promises, like Rob Lloyd, executive director of Hyperloop One, who said:. will be moving goods in 2019, and transporting passengers safely in a Hyperloop in 2021

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 investment arm of US conglomerate General Electric.

Will the physical world what Internet to digital

in fact, Hyperloop One already has partnerships with industry specialists, as the French Systra (subsidiary of SNCF) or Deutsche Bahn German Engineering and Consulting. So sure is the company’s progress of the project, which called on businesses, governments, citizens and academics around the world submit proposals for places where they could be built systems.

The competition is a call 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 transport system is constructed in a city that had nothing, change the lives of people she said on the eve of the event Mathieu Dunant, vice president of Systra for northern Europe.

We see potential not only in transportation 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. 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 the Internet did to the digital world said Andrew Liu , vice president of the multinational engineering AECOM, one of the collaborating firms Hyperloop One.