#HTE

Video of Hyperloop Pod Hitting 200 MPH!

If you present the concept of Hyperloop technology to, say, a plodding government body in charge of transportation, nothing will ever come of it. But if you build a design competition out of it, engaging young, active minds, progress can be made quite quickly.

SpaceX held their first Hyperloop Pod Competition in January of this year, where 27 university teams from around the world built prototypes and ran them through a battery of tests at SpaceX’s one-mile Hyperloop track.

This month SpaceX held a second competition, inviting the best three teams that had cleared the first competition’s hurdles and asking them to “focus on a single criterion: Maximum speed.”

Two of the teams, from Switzerland’s ETH Zurich and a joint U.S./Canada team from Northeastern University and the Memorial University of Newfoundland, experienced technical difficulties. But the WARR Hyperloop pod, created by the 30-member team from Germany’s Technical University of Munich, absolutely crushed it, rocketing their prototype up to a blistering 201 m.p.h. (324 k.p.h.) within the one-mile test track. Musk posted this video of it:

Congratulations to the WARR team!

http://www.core77.com/posts/68653/Video-of-Hyperloop-Pod-Hitting-200-MPH