Transpod's dream: Hyperloop high-speed travel between cities

[marmar]

(CBC News) Imagine you could travel from Montreal to Toronto in 30 minutes after buying a ticket to ride inside an aluminum pod that travelled at high speed inside a low-pressure tube.

That's the dream of Toronto startup Transpod, which has taken up the challenge posed by SpaceX founder and billionaire Elon Musk to design what he calls the "fifth mode of transportation."

Sebastien Gendron, founder of Transpod, says the company is working with the University of Toronto toward the goal of having a commercial prototype by 2020.

"There is definitely a bit of research and development to do to succeed to reach those speeds. But clearly the physics is here today and clearly feasible," he told CBC's The Exchange.

In 2013, Musk outlined the Hyperloop concept, a super-fast, low-friction transportation system that would be an alternative to existing ways of travelling, with higher performance at lower overall cost. The pods would travel at speeds of 560 km/h or more. ..................(more)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/transpod-hyperloop-1.3496206

[MisterP]

1. didn't they say they'd have the Musk pods up and running this month already?

I know the campus LaRouchies have been flogging it since the 70s until the RA chases them and the Bob Avakian cultists out of the dorms