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    DRIVING CHANGE Hyperloop zips commuters between cities in MINUTES moving as many peop

    Pretty cool. I expect this will be used in the first manned outposts on the moon and Mars.

    DRIVING CHANGE Hyperloop zips commuters between cities in MINUTES moving as many people as a 30 lane highway with levitation tech

    HYPERLOOP systems will move as many people as a 30-lane highway between cities in minutes, according to Virgin Hyperloop's chief.

    Speaking to Reuters on Monday, Josh Giegel said the upcoming transport technology would move "massive amounts of people" at the speed of an aircraft inside levitating capsules.



    He also explained what it was like to ride inside one of the pods after taking part in a test run at a Virgin facility in Nevada last year alongside fellow staff member Sara Luchian.

    "From starting this in a garage seven years ago, to drawing it up on a whiteboard, to sitting inside it, it was all very surreal," Giegel said.


    "The acceleration was similar to a sportscar, and we were giddy.


    "The biggest piece of that test was that the world saw two people get on a hyperloop, and saw two people get off.


    He added: "Until that moment, everyone wondered 'Could it be safe for people?' Now we know that it is."


    Developed by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Hyperloop, the technology uses high-powered electromagnets to push levitating pods through a tube.
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    Best hoping there are separate lines for each tube. Otherwise, the results could be.... messy.
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    In the 1950's Robert Heinlein wrote about "rolling roads", where the road, not the traveler moved. It was a conveyor belt system that you merely stepped on or off. The main issue I saw with that is that it wasn't just one belt, it had to be several running side by side in order to have a "step up" system when you could go from a stand still to 100 plus mph belt.

    Unless acted upon by outside forces I believe private and personal transportation systems (i.e. automobiles, etc) will be with us for quite some time. At least as long as we are allowed some modicum of personal freedom in the future.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nathanbforrest45 View Post
    In the 1950's Robert Heinlein wrote about "rolling roads", where the road, not the traveler moved. It was a conveyor belt system that you merely stepped on or off. The main issue I saw with that is that it wasn't just one belt, it had to be several running side by side in order to have a "step up" system when you could go from a stand still to 100 plus mph belt.

    Unless acted upon by outside forces I believe private and personal transportation systems (i.e. automobiles, etc) will be with us for quite some time. At least as long as we are allowed some modicum of personal freedom in the future.
    I expect so too. That is why I mentioned in the first post that we will likely see these on the moon and Mars.
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