Hyperloop | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-06

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00:02:06 1 History
00:05:42 2 Theory and operation
00:06:27 2.1 Initial design concept
00:08:12 2.2 Proposed routes
00:14:06 2.3 Open-source design evolution
00:16:46 2.4 Mars
00:17:16 3 Hyperloop companies
00:17:25 3.1 Virgin Hyperloop One
00:20:50 3.2 Hyperloop Transportation Technologies
00:22:05 3.3 TransPod
00:25:17 3.4 DGWHyperloop
00:25:53 3.5 Arrivo
00:26:38 3.6 Hardt Global Mobility
00:27:36 3.7 Hyper Chariot
00:28:04 3.8 Zeleros
00:29:56 3.9 Hyper Poland
00:30:27 4 Hyperloop pod competition
00:32:18 5 Criticism and human factor considerations
00:34:01 6 Political and economic considerations
00:37:09 7 Related projects
00:37:18 7.1 Historical
00:40:12 7.2 Current
00:40:44 8 See also



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A Hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and/or freight transportation, first used to describe an open-source vactrain design released by a joint team from Tesla and SpaceX. Drawing heavily from Robert Goddard's vactrain, a hyperloop is a sealed tube or system of tubes through which a pod may travel free of air resistance or friction conveying people or objects at high speed while being very efficient.
Elon Musk's version of the concept, first publicly mentioned in 2012, incorporates reduced-pressure tubes in which pressurized capsules ride on air bearings driven by linear induction motors and axial compressors.The Hyperloop Alpha concept was first published in August 2013, proposing and examining a route running from the Los Angeles region to the San Francisco Bay Area, roughly following the Interstate 5 corridor. The Hyperloop Genesis paper conceived of a hyperloop system that would propel passengers along the 350-mile (560 km) route at a speed of 760 mph (1,200 km/h), allowing for a travel time of 35 minutes, which is considerably faster than current rail or air travel times. Preliminary cost estimates for this LA–SF suggested route were included in the white paper—US$6 billion for a passenger-only version, and US$7.5 billion for a somewhat larger-diameter version transporting passengers and vehicles—although transportation analysts had doubts that the system could be constructed on that budget; some analysts claimed that the Hyperloop would be several billion dollars overbudget, taking into consideration construction, development, and operation costs.The Hyperloop concept has been explicitly "open-sourced" by Musk and SpaceX, and others have been encouraged to take the ideas and further develop them.
To that end, a few companies have been formed, and several interdisciplinary student-led teams are working to advance the technology. SpaceX built an approximately 1-mile-long (1.6 km) subscale track for its pod design competition at its headquarters in Hawthorne, California.Some experts are skeptical, saying that the proposals ignore the expenses and risks of developing the technology and that the idea is "completely impractical". Claims have also been made that the Hyperloop is too susceptible to disruption from a power outage or terror attacks to be considered safe.