A Glimpse at What the Hyperloop Might Actually Be Like

What we know about theHyperloopthus far can be summed up in a few exclamatory phrase : It ’s visionary ! It ’s crazy ! It ’s impossible ! Butwe have n’t really understand muchabout how Elon Musk ’s altogether tubular transportation organisation might actually work — until now .

These Hyperloop imaginings come to us as the final labor ofSuprastudio , a master key - level studio apartment at UCLA ’s architecture school , andHyperloop Transportation Technologies , a startup based in Downtown LA — which is n’t technically related to Tesla or Space X because Musk said , hey world , here ’s an idea , run with it people , I have to go work on barrage and getting to Mars .

Adocumentwas released by the school this hebdomad to co-occur with goal - of - semester presentations . And in add-on to some pretty renderings , there is some very good thinking here ( and , regrettably , some typos ) .

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The research includes some historical food for thought process like compare locomotion times before and after radical transportation infrastructure like the Transcontinental Railroad and the Panama Canal . Then , to adjudicate which cities might get Hyperloop precedency , 50 metropolitan expanse were ranked by standard like population , Job , existing public transit , freight needs , etc . A variety of strategies are purpose , from connect cities into giant mega - neighborhood to focalize first on captivate touristry dollars . One proposed alignment travels the route of the proposed California gamy - speed rail web ( which iscurrently being protested ) , with a gad off to Las Vegas .

There ’s an idea for Urban Loops , which would move around within cities like subways . And , since these are architects , they ’ve given some literal opinion to the design of the station and “ capsule ” travelers will ride in . They even seek to tackle the cargo and unloading of rider — something that civilise or airplanes probably will never nail .

Here are some epitome that caught my centre ; only low - res imagery is available at the bit so they ’re a scrap muzzy . But , like I sound out , bright and piquant . I ’d devolve on this thing .

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