German team wins Hyperloop Pod competition

Am I the only who is kinda disappointed at these speeds? 80kg through a vaccum at only averaged 320km/h?
 
It needs to start somewhere. The first cars were slower that horses. More advances will only happen after we adopt it.
 
Origin248 said:
Am I the only who is kinda disappointed at these speeds? 80kg through a vaccum at only averaged 320km/h?
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It got to 300+ and back down to zero in just over a km and you're disappointed?

What were you expecting? Just straight to warp speed?

AstroTurf said:
Fast and cheap public transport.
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Neither fast nor cheap. A modern high speed train will carry way more passengers. It's the same reason we don't have a million small F16 jets flying people to Europe. You stick them in a large plane that travels slowly. It's also the reason why commercial jets are getting bigger and bigger (A380?) rather than faster and faster.

This stuff sounds cool from a single individual perspective. Once you realise that a busy subway station carries 100 million+ people a year you realise you need something that scales much better to achieve cheap public transport.
 
HavocXphere said:
It got to 300+ and back down to zero in just over a km and you're disappointed?

What were you expecting? Just straight to warp speed?


Neither fast nor cheap. A modern high speed train will carry way more passengers. It's the same reason we don't have a million small F16 jets flying people to Europe. You stick them in a large plane that travels slowly. It's also the reason why commercial jets are getting bigger and bigger (A380?) rather than faster and faster.

This stuff sounds cool from a single individual perspective. Once you realise that a busy subway station carries 100 million+ people a year you realise you need something that scales much better to achieve cheap public transport.
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I'm also wondering if he has some space ideas behind this experiment.
 
Moosedrool said:
Why not just build a maglev?
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Simple, speed, the same kind of speed you get from a hyper/super sonic airliner combined with the speed (and ease) of jumping on and off a train....
With that you're talking about getting people potentially from coast to coast in the same time that a commute within the same city might take with traditional transport.
Could change the rule book completely as to where people work and live if this ever really works.

I have my reservations on the practicality of this, but it's really cool that people are actually trying something that has so many hurdles to overcome... kinda feels like it fills the gap for people who are currently bored with the lack of drive and focus in the space program.
 
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