WARR Hyperloop reaches 324 km/h during the second SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition 

papa corey This comment made our day :D cheers from Munich

I was about to comment almost the same! lolol

wow so original dude

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80 kg and a 50 kW motor: www.tum.de/die-tum/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/detail/article/34162/

The end target speed of Hyperloop is around 1000+ km/h, this is a step on the way to that (a few months ago the fastest speeds were under 150 km/h). And lack of air resistance in the tube means relatively less energy required to propel the pod compared to a high speed train

PINEXXful Thebother teams in the competitipn didn't even get half of that speed. (For example MIT) Also it is a student team that built it in their free time. The track and the pot itself poses new and unique engineering challenges.

Just watch a hyperloop video

lsmjudoka there is definitely air resistance in the tube which you can see when the pod starts to slow down dust goes everywhere

Ich bin auch aus der Maxvorstadt! Unglaubliche Leistung in 5 Monaten so ein Projekt durchzuziehen.

Zeph Tzou it is seizure inducing. I can already feel my eyes flutter a bit

the lights are just to help visualize it's speed i think that was stated from him. but don't take my word for it haha

It will be soon enough!

You dont feel anything while in the pod though :(

Nick Gur if thats a question the answer is no inless you some how discover a way to get round the many problems watch thunderfoots video on it

Then watch the dozens of videos debunking thunderfoot's shoddy calculations and bad science.

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My vote for best comment.Thanks for the laugh. Cheers

You only feel the inertia when you accelerate. It's like when a plane takes off, you feel it for a bit but then once you're in the air you feel nothing. Galilean relativity, once you're travelling at the same velocity as the pod it won't feel like anything.

I wasn't talking about the inertia, I was talking about the rough ride.

Early stages, you're being pretty cynical. It's like you're looking at a firework and saying that riding a rocket to the moon is impossible. All just a matter of good engineering.

+Alex, sorry but you can't just say something's in early stages, therefore it'll actually work in the future. Why don't we have flying cars yet, is it because of cynical people saying that they won't work, or physics? We've had vacuum tunnel trains since the 1930s, there's nothing about anything they're doing that's new or revolutionary. The reason we gave up on the idea is because it's just plain dumb to do it, you don't understand the energies required to pull an atmosphere down to 0.001% atmosphere, it's absolutely insane. Nobody's saying that the technology's impossible, just that it's absolutely impractical and will never be able to compete in the real world. We'll have self flying transports before this becomes practical, and the main reason is simply the amount of energy required to produce the vacuum and maintain it is greater than the advantage than the system offers, and no amount of engineering can solve it because it's a physics limitation, not an intelligence limitation. This is forgetting the fact that the entire tube will contract\expand like crazy, and a breach in the wall will almost certainly cause a catastrophic cascading failure that'll destroy the entire tube in minutes. Most people don't fully realize the power of a vacuum: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0N17tEW_WEU.html Imagine being in that tube.

Vol use there wuz air inside the tube. Air resistance

Vol use We were clamped by a spring system to the rail with about 500N in lateral and vertical direction at both ends. So it is not a stiff system but allows small deflections to compensate shocks due to the small gaps and steps between the rail sections.

There is no air in the tube. Decrease in air resistance and friction :D

A longer tube means less G force

No it doesn't lol

Poorly. In the real thing, braking time will be much slower.

It's a proof-of-concept pod so deceleration can be arbitrarily fast.

Skymin that will be the case this time around in Normal frame😎

No :P Even my old, boring car make 250km/h. 320km/h is even possible with sportcars, but you need much more efford. With a huge effort they can make maybe 600 km/h in this technology, but there will be a lot of expensive wearing. Nobody doubted the possibility of a "train" driving 320 km/h. Starting from 600 it will get tricky. To tricky for a commercial sollution.

akram Saouri well, the acceleration is not that bad. But the deceleration looks too me much more impressive!!!

Miroslav Dubik ":D"

yes, obviously this isn't the complete tube

Michaelc136 im pretty sure only local flights will stop. International flights will be replaced with the next gen concord or something

Aerorspace a fuel efficient concord if that's possible

Michaelc136 large manufacturers such as Boeing will be moving towards space based flight. Flying will still remain the same, it will just evolve. The hyper loop Concept on the other hand won't get very far.

Aerorspace you do know concord was so expensive to fly it literely nearly bankrupted some companys trying to fly it also aviation is safe until eather we invent a way for personal flying like a ship from cowboy bebob or any sifi ship but you will always have a job even then as comersial will sill be needed just you wont be flying typical planes.

aviation will turn into space travel, planes will fly higher and higher eventually carrying small rockets into orbit, just look at Stratolaunch.

You're weird...

Because this is basically porn for geeks

because... it doesn't?

Alex Luna luna hyperloop on Mars = THE FUTURE

Jøhñŷ Töûçåñ because only 250 subscribers, lower viewing threshold for small channels to hit trending. Helps the little guys get recognized.

+M. de k. Air and water are two completely different things.

Fast travel? planes are too expensive.

Most likely the engine

JoeyIsKing the prototype is not mag Lev.

Ж this hyperloop is made by WARR who decided to put wheels on it.

Juan Pretorius the finished product will be in a vacuum but this video was a test without a vacuum for top speed

Surely then the aerodynamics for the testing will play a huge part when it comes to 150mph+ , yet be irrelevant when it comes to a vacuum?

it has brakes :D the friction is so low, it would go on for miles

... nope, they have to brake it very hard. The major obstacle with these things is stopping them without melting the brakes, not keeping them coasting.

gspinoza of course this isn't what the finished product will be doing. This hyperloop competition was purely to see who can make the hyperloop go the fastest and the the deceleration is because the tube is only so long 1.25 km to be clear.

Thanks for the clarification. I suspected that as well but didn't know for sure

thanks for the clarification. I suspected that as well but wasn't sure...