Students from Munich’s Technical University won Elon Musk’s SpaceX Hyperloop Pod competition. Teams from all over the world vied to see who could build the fastest pod train. Musk hopes his Hyperloop idea will one day revolutionize transportation.
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A transport startup backed by Richard Branson has inked a deal to build a Hyperloop system between the Indian cities Mumbai and Pune. It's unclear, though, if the technology addresses India's infrastructure bottlenecks.
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Be it rail or road, plane or boat, there are four main types of transportation humans use to get around. To most traveling any other way seems like a vision from the future, but the future may only be a pod ride away.
A futuristic passenger and freight transportation concept has moved closer to realization after Dubai inks deal with Hyperloop One. The network would propel pods through reduced-pressure tubes at near supersonic speeds.