Hyperloop crashes and BURNS!!!

should this be wall-to-wall media coverage this week about the Hyperloop competition the Hyperloop once the concepts now very much in development is a mode of transportation that has the potential to change how we think about travel Hyperloop a massive solar power tube will allow passengers to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than 30 minutes it's going to be able to reach in theory speeds of 700 maybe even 800 miles an hour just to get from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes there's almost nothing else like that the Hyperloop high-speed transportation system has moved a step closer to reality up at six Lowell the boundaries of physics and see what is really really possible and I think will find that it's way more incredible than than we ever realized that's that's really the overarching purpose of this Hyperloop competition teams competed to design subscale versions of the transport pods that could one day whisk passengers between San Francisco and Los Angeles in under half an hour they've actually built one I mean maybe I was wrong about this maybe the hike loop isn't all hype and MIT spot is inside Hyperloop test track here in Hawthorne California and they're about to be the first team ever to send their pod crew for a money run as fast as they can you can hear the crowd cheering behind me I'm sure this competition is really going to show me just how advanced these technologies these technology that's almost here those tubes could be the futures travel the technology that's going to change the way we think about travel by the end of 2016 the end of this year we'll have demonstrated Hyperloop operating with all of its components we'll have showed the world this isn't a pipe dream this is actually reality our ability to travel faster across the world has consistently been a catalyst for change this effect can be seen right back to the domestication of the horse Hyperloop one designers say this technology to be ready to go by 2020 we're only just talking a few years away do you actually believe that that's possible probably going to be cargo first probably going to be a route that's not 300 miles but maybe since when I sat in one Hyperloop starts to feel real well the seats be more reclined because I go in 750 miles an hour I feel like I kind of want to lean back oh maybe not so the test track they built was about four fifths of a mile long the tube is five thousand 150 feet long seriously they couldn't even build a mile-long test track and even at that that's the second largest vacuum chamber in the world yes and so we got the until this is like the me the second biggest the vacuum chamber in the world after the Large Hadron Collider so it's a very exciting that's only one for hundreds of the actual size of the proposed Californian Hyperloop you know the one that's going to get you from Los Angeles to San Francisco in about 30 minutes traveling at almost the speed of sound the speed of a bullet powder tube he didn't say a rifle barrel in a vacuum he's actually in space well naturally soon as this was such a plausible and clearly financially viable project they went straight in and started hiring experienced engineers to design this right and so we thought a great way for kind of the world to innovate would be to throw a student competition where we built a test track a Hyperloop test track and then invited student teams from around the world to build the best possible pod to go in that test track nah they have a design competition for students Hyperloop the technology is pretty much there already we just have to implement it one of the things this competition is for is to show the world that we can do this and convince them that we should build it somewhere and get the ball rolling which I'm sure will yield superb results now you have to bear in mind it just to get something into or out of this a Hyperloop test track takes about half an hour you know to pump down the Hyperloop to let the vacuum level because this is such a large chamber and it takes a lot of power and a lot of resources for us to pump it down we want to make sure before we put the pods in here that nothing is going to happen to them under a vacuum different teams want to go to different pressure levels but if we go down to like a fairly low level probably take about 30 minutes it takes longer than the proposed journey time from the Los Angeles to San Francisco what allow passengers to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than 30 minutes just to get in to the Hyperloop we're waiting for Delft to do their run they put it in the suit got an hour ago then they took it out and they put it back in its apartment some of the increase it was more like an hour and a half and they took it out and then they put it back in and now it's in and it's being pressurized which takes about 30 to 45 minutes it is 6 o'clock the ceremony's about 435 but whatever it's a prototype I'm sure once the pods are in there they will travel at incredible speeds I mean we were promised you know 700 miles an hour hi I'm Steve Davis I'm the director of advanced project as beta Hyperloop is a point-to-point transportation system over ground that's meant to allow people to travel extremely high speeds up to a seven thousand seven hundred miles an hour via the idea originated from Elon back in 2013 you don't have wind resistance as you push your pot or capsule down the tube so the pods can get to speeds upwards of 750 miles an hour now we're not going to make you see that today our tube is only one in a quarter kilometers long but we do expect to see speeds upwards of 80 miles an hour perhaps depending on how things go actually no adult speed was about 60 miles per hour got up to about 80 kilometers an hour down a few I think I think that's what all the all the vehicles are going to be doing today awesome so 80 kilometers per hour that is a fantastic speed and you guys have set the bar for the remainder of the teams that have made it to the final competition stage so only three capsules actually went into the vacuum chamber there was the roomy truffling comfort waters I there was the slightly bigger but not much Delft design this was the absolutely tiny MIT M only one of those made it to the end of the track I interested the future of mankind's transport to students and this is what they came up with how could this possibly have happened in fact it's worse than that you see news vehicle they're actually pushed up the speed by an electric vehicle then they push about one quarter of the distance which means the MIT pot here which was selected from one team out of about 1,200 of the original 1,200 teams that entered the competition 120 made it to College Station Texas by the end of that weekend there were 30 teams left and we are we were fortunate enough to be one of those teams the absolute cream of the crop up top here inside you see we have the seat where the dummy goes and leads to trouble about 50 meters or something now it's about to kick off remember the SpaceX pusher will bring it up to speed then it will detach and let Hyperloop MIT do its thing okay ready for this so the pusher is going it's accelerating the pod pods giving faster and faster 30 kilometers now 40 kilometers an hour 50 and so forth up to 67 and this released apart and the pod stopped to go maybe add no 50 meters or something even I've decided to host a competition he told the world come up with Hyperloop design and what the best design wing indeed the winning team actually only managed to go slightly further on its own so hey we heard the pushes off and it's accelerating the pod 30 km/h 50 km/h 180 kilometers an hour 80 to 90 kilometers per hour and it releases the pod ah the pod stops one of the things this competition is for is to show the world that we can do this and convince them that we should build it somewhere and get the ball rolling so yeah it turns out the only pod to get to the end with the poor team with it's a spacious transport we did actually get to the end of the track although just look at all the dust earth thrown upon this thing so there we go and the pusher starts and excite it 30 what as an hour of 1450 disease sort of you know residential type speeds and just a little ball of dust this thing flying up and it's approaching where the others stopped and it blows straight possible with the other stopped doing it about lady kilometers now our this is 50 miles per hour look white 700 miles of that Hobart is filling up that you work very effectively with an awful lot of dust yeah always advantages of losing the friction of the atmosphere that's really going to cut down on the resistance clean at this rate it's not the Hyperloop just won't be able to change cars it might even struggle to challenge walking what gets me though is what were they thinking if you want to demonstrate that this pipe loop thing is possible you would need a track at least long enough to get up to speed about 10 times this size minimum so why didn't they try that well as I've stated before building a large vacuum chamber is crazy expensive and the practicalities go up exponentially is this thing gets bigger as the track gets up to you know sub 10 kilometers 10 miles that sort of thing you get real expansion issues the pumping down issues multiply the hazards are tube failure go up like crazy and once your capsule up to speed any failure will not only destroy the capsule but also the Hyperloop autonomously well that'll cost a failure I'm really not so sure you want to be outsourcing this design to students one of the things this competition is for is to show the world that we can do this and convince them that we should build it somewhere and get the ball rolling like a cruise ship these things aren't even the League of getting to the end of a one mile long track I mean the dumb thing is if you have simply put an electric car in this vacuum tube it would have smoked them all well the thing that I used to push the pods up to speed would have smoked everything in this competition to get people excited about new forms of transport things that may be completely different from what we we see today look it's just a reality into of speed and convenience the Hyperloop is orders of magnitude behind just regular driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco and another one or two orders of magnitude behind what they're promising so reality check time all Hyperloop stories include these promise of 600 miles per hour Hyperloop a massive solar power tube would allow passengers to get from Los Angeles to San Francisco in less than 30 minutes it's going to be able to reach in theory speed those 700 maybe even 800 miles an hour to get from LA to San Francisco in 35 minutes there's almost nothing else like that our aim is to connect the world like never before in history what the internet did in the sphere of communication hypose will certainly do in the realm of transportation seeing this thing hover and seeing it move it's so futuristic but it's really right around the corner keep it in a pod in our catapulted rui-zhi pressurized to at over 700 miles per hour and travel at speeds greater than 600 miles per hour with tickets costing less than the seat aboard a plane or train awesome so 80 km/h that is a fantastic speed and you guys have set the bar for the remainder of the teams but curiously let me tell you but two out of the three pods selected from over 1200 didn't even make it to the end of a one-mile track even though they were pushed for about 1/4 of the way by what is essentially an electric car yeah Hyperloop pretty much what it says on the box when I sat in one Hyperloop starts to feel real well the seats be more reclined because I going 750 miles an hour I feel like I kind of want to lean back don't worry dude Hyperloop can do that for you [Music]

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Length: 13min 11sec (791 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 07 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/[deleted]]

Anything even remotely critical of Elon Musk or his projects will be destroyed in this subreddit.

I firmly believe that Elon Musk has some degree of control over Reddit content.

[u/Eugene_Bleak_Slate]

Absolutely spot on. The whole thing was ridiculous. Until I see a pod actually going inside a vacuum tube, even if just for a mile and below 100 km/h, I won't believe it can be done.

[u/jarrys88]

to be honest, it never made sense why elon musk was running this test.

The test track is being built by Hyperloop Transportation Technologies not spacex and the actual proper test track which is purposefully built for hyperloop is in quay valley california.

Wouldnt it be best to wait until the test track is fully complete then test your pod designs on the ACTUAL TRACK.

here's the track they used, you can see they werent testing for speed. its only a 1 km vacuum tube. like, come on. You're not going to crack 600km/hr on a 1km long tube....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMd_QGmmkgY http://www.spacex.com/hyperloop

The next stage of the competition says they're aiming for speed and deceleration. that'll be more interesting.

it even says on their site that they're not related ot hte hyperloop companies and this competition is to encourage development.

But really, keep an eye on HTT or even hyperloop one. SpaceX actually arent at the forefront in this.

being negative about this is like when spacex's first few tries at re-using rockets failed and everyone said "they'll never do it"