MIT student team wins Hyperloop capsule design competition

Hyperloop Capsule Design Concept

A team of MIT students this Saturday was announced the winner of the Hyperloop capsule design competition . In total, more than 1,000 people participated in the competition, divided into 120 teams. The second place was taken by participants from the Netherlands Institute of Technology, the third - from the University of Wisconsin.

The first place teams will be able to build and test capsules for the future high-speed transport on the kilometer-long test track, which will be built in California in 2017.
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Mask himself unexpectedly for the participants of the competition honored them with his presence, which caused a storm of emotions and a flurry of applause from students who highly valued his achievements.

“My main goal in creating Hyperloop is to heat up interest in new vehicles, ” Musk admitted from the competition scene. - It starts to seem to me that this project will really be implemented. With such attention to it, it becomes clear that people from all over the world are demanding the creation of a new transport, and that you will give it to them. ”

“I really like the idea that we can live in one city, work in another, and have a transportation system that is fast enough for this,” said Musk. He also, in particular, said that this year his company is likely to organize another contest, the theme of which will be the development not of capsules, but of the route itself, i.e. pipes.

Hyperloop is a transport system project where capsules with people will move inside a pipe with a rarefied atmosphere. It is assumed that the speed of movement of the composition will exceed 1,100 km / h.