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A Hyperloop company just announced an unprecedented plan to make it a reality

http://www.techinsider.io/hyperloop-transportation-technologies-to-start-construction-2015-8#ixzz3jTKbGWKU



The Hyperloop just got a little more official.

On Thursday, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), a California-based company developing Hyperloop technology, said it would break ground on the futuristic railway in May 2016.

The company also announced that its team has grown to more than 400 members, and it has secured three key partnerships to assist with development of the Hyperloop.

HTT?s new partners include the engineering-design firm AECOM, the Swiss technology company Oerlikon, which builds high-tech vacuums that are necessary to the system to function, and the architecture firm Hodgetts & Fung.

The company has been working with these companies for a while, but just made the news public, Dirk Ahlborn, HTT?s CEO, told Tech Insider in an interview.

Earlier this year, HTT announced it had secured the land to build a 5-mile Hyperloop test track just north of Los Angeles in Quay Valley. But it didn?t give a clear timeline of when they would begin construction. The company said it plans to have passengers using the system by 2018.
Musk?s Hyperloop vision

The Hyperloop was originally introduced by SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in 2013 when he published a white paper explaining how the transportation system could work.

Basically, Musk?s vision of the Hyperloop was a tubular system that shoots pod-like capsules between destinations at speeds of more than 500 mph.

The ultimate goal of such a system is to shrink regions so that people can easily travel from city to city in a very short amount of time. For example, instead of it taking six to eight hours to travel between San Francisco and Los Angeles by car, it would only take about 30 minutes via Hyperloop.

Read more: http://www.techinsider.io/hyperloop-transportation-technologies-to-start-construction-2015-8#ixzz3jTLHfYWg

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Elon Musk?s hyperloop is actually getting kind of serious

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/08/elon-musks-hyperloop-is-actually-getting-kind-of-serious/