OneHyperloop trial runway ? Yeah , that ’s somewhat nerveless . Two ? Okay , starting to get telling .
Three ? Now we ’re take heed .
Yes , in what is promptly becoming an challenging race to be the first to make grow Elon Musk ’s idea for a 1,220 kilometer per hour ( 760 miles per hour ) vacuum - tube rider organization , another contender has entered the fray .
This clock time around , engineering and twist business firm Aecom is build a course for Musk ’s own party , SpaceX. The previous two Hyperloop enterprise are separate from Musk and his companies , aside from the initial idea .
" Aecom has designed and built some of the world ’s most impressive transportation systems , so we revalue how the development of a functioning Hyperloop with SpaceX can dramatically inflate the ways people move across cities , countries and continents , " articulate Aecom ’s CEO Michael Burke in astatement .
" What we are delivering is more than just a track to test pod prototypes ; it ’s a glimpse into the future . "
This track , which will be 1.8 meter ( 6 feet ) wide and 1.6 kilometers ( 1 mile ) long , will be built near SpaceX ’s home base in Hawthorne , California . building is bear to start in the outpouring of this year . And this weekend , SpaceX is hold back a “ Hyperloop Pod Competition ” at Texas A&M University , to give teams a opportunity to plan vessels to be used on the test track .
As cite , this is not the first Hyperloop project on the drawing board . Two others are in the works , from troupe Hyperloop Transportation Technologies and the confusingly similar Hyperloop Technologies . They will be construct in California and Nevada severally . To add to the muddiness , Aecom is also part - funding the former .
Nonetheless , this race is well and genuinely on . Since Musk first offer the approximation in 2012 , no one has built a fully functioning Hyperloop scheme . But if the pipe dream ever does come to fruition , we could see passenger transported declamatory distances – say , Los Angeles to San Francisco – in a fraction of the meter presently possible .
