MOAPA, Nev. — Hyperloop technology, which promises to transport people and goods at speeds of up to 600 miles an hour, has long seemed too good to be true. But one company says it has cleared an important step toward commercializing it by moving two of its employees through a test system. The two volunteers, wearing casual street clothes, were whisked in a pod that was levitated by magnets inside a vacuum tube to 107 m.p.h. The riders sat in molded seats covered in white vegan leather, housed inside the all-white carbon fiber-clad pod. And unlike an airplane, there were no lateral forces that would have caused the pod to sway, she said.

Source: New York Times November 09, 2020 00:45 UTC