{"id":184851,"date":"2017-07-12T16:02:28","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=184851"},"modified":"2017-07-12T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T14:03:36","slug":"watch-hyperloop-one-completes-its-first-full-system-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/184851\/watch-hyperloop-one-completes-its-first-full-system-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Hyperloop One completes its first full-system test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s lofty dreams of a futuristic, super-fast mode of travel is getting closer to reality, with the Hyperloop One successfully completing its first full-system test in Nevada, USA.<\/p>\n<p>Hyperloop One, co-founded by venture capitalist Shervin Pishevar, is one of the first successful attempts at turning Musk&#8217;s advanced, hi-tech concept into a real-world transport system.<\/p>\n<p>The aerodynamic pod is 8.5 metres long, and constructed of structural aluminum and carbon fiber. Using electromagnetic propulsion and mag-lev technology, its designed to carry both cargo and human passengers at near supersonic speeds.<\/p>\n<p>The system, which is still in its very early days, managed to complete a successful trip around the 500 metre long &#8220;DevLoop&#8221; in Nevada in May, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/7\/12\/15958224\/hyperloop-one-first-full-system-test-devloop\">The Verge reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Hyperloop One system only managed to reach a top speed of 70 miles per hour (112kmph), which is still a long way off from the &#8216;conceptual&#8217; speeds of 750mph (1,200kmph) promised by Musk &#8211; but it is a start.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pishevar, the next phase of Hyperloop One testing will be to take it up to 250mph (400kmph).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hyperloop is building what could be a new high-speed mode of transportation. Passengers will sit in pods and travel at 700 miles per hour <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lkeMGe8ocm\">pic.twitter.com\/lkeMGe8ocm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/885115917780361218\">July 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Musk first released alpha designs and documentation relating to his vision of the futuristic transport system in August 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He envisioned that the Hyperloop would be able move people from San Francisco to Los Angeles (about 600km) in a half hour. This would mean transporting passengers at over 1,200km per hour.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid issues related to high-speed travel (such as friction and air resistance) Musk\u2019s idea is loosely based on pneumatic tubes, where cylindrical containers are propelled through a network of tubes by compressed air or by partial vacuum, and commonly used by banks to transport money.<\/p>\n<p>According to Musk, the system would cost an estimated $6 billion to build and construction would take 7 to 10 years.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to Why the future of rail travel doesn\u2019t look like the Hyperloop\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/columns\/95317\/the-future-of-rail-travel-doesnt-look-like-the-hyperloop\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why the future of rail travel doesn\u2019t look like the Hyperloop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s lofty dreams of a futuristic, super-fast mode of travel is getting closer to reality, with the Hyperloop One successfully completing its first full-system test in Nevada, USA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9878],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-184851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184857,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184851\/revisions\/184857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}