New Generation Mode of Transportation - Hyperloop

Mode of Transportation

In our generation, there are vast choices of transportation that we can choose ranging from land, air or sea and even under the sea but still, it depends where are we going and the mode of transportation that is available in that certain place. Several decades back, the only means of transportation in most of the world was on land and still, they were inventing on how to travel through the air. They based their inventions on how the bird can fly until the Wright brothers came into the scene and the rest is history.

I just remember the Flintstones Family (comic movie) in stone age era, they got the land transportation and can carry around 6 people.

It has two wheels at both ends like of the heavy equipment compactor wheel and the funny thing is that there is no engine in it. The floor of their car where the driver sits has a hole in it in a way that his feet touches on the ground and there he runs for the car to move.

The Hyperloop

Through the advancement of our technology nowadays, several great minds proposed a new concept of transportation that is safer and faster than most of the vehicle that we have now. It is even faster than most commercial planes. They conceptualized and studied Hyperloop several decades and they come-up with several trials. It was first called as "Vactrain" or simply means Vacuum Tube Train that was designed by a joint team of engineers from Tesla and SpaceX. It was first publicly mentioned in 2012 by Elon Musk. The first alpha concept was first published in 2013 that will be routing from Los Angeles region to San Francisco Bay Area.

Hyperloop is another mode of transportation that carries several passengers same of that on a regular rail train. It is a pressurized capsule tube that runs in a vacuum pod in such a way no air resistance nor friction that will hinder its speed. It is said to be very efficient and runs with its projected top speed of 760 mph or 1,220km/h, this is faster than the most commercial plane that we have now.

This is now the next big thing for Transportation Industry to come-up with the Hyperloop project. There were so many countries eyed to establish hyperloop in their land and its possible to connect several countries with this hyperloop system. Feasibility studies were conducted in several countries such as United States, Mexico, India, United Kingdom, Canada and even UAE and many more added to the list.

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