Hyperloop One , one of three companies hoping to make Elon Musk ’s aspiration of high - speed travel a world , has declare its first track may be build in Dubai in as before long as five age .
In an announcement earlier this hebdomad , California - ground Hyperloop One said it had check a deal with Dubai in the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) to look into building a track between Dubai and the cap , Abu Dhabi .
The journey , about 150 kilometers ( 90 miles ) , takes two hours by railway car – but could be cut to just 12 minutes by Hyperloop .
" We ’re going to create a unseamed experience that start the minute you believe about being somewhere – not going somewhere , " tell Josh Giegel , President of Engineering at Hyperloop One , in astatement .
" We do n’t deal car , boats , trains , or planes . We sell prison term . ”
Artist ’s depression of the Hyperloop cut in Dubai . Hyperloop One
Hyperloop was first aim by Musk in 2012 , and has garnered a high level of interest since then . placard as the “ fifth style of ecstasy ” , it would transport people in pods in vacuum thermionic valve at speeds of 1,220 kilometers ( 760 mile ) per minute , move by electromagnets .
In a promotional video ( below ) , Hyperloop One explicate how the system could work out in recitation . rider would journey to a central hub , where they would enter a Hyperloop pod . Four of these cod would then be attached together and make the speedy journeying in the emptiness - tube to their destination .
Upon arriver , each pod – apparently self - driving – would take the passengers to their ultimate destination .
It is , in the true , a slightly imaginary view of the future . But with meaning interest in this sort of gamy - speed travel , there is a chance it may amount to fruition . Earlier this year , we saw apublic testfrom Hyperloop One showing a paradigm of the technology in military action .
Hyperloop One is leading the charge to build up the first work track alongside rival company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies . Musk ’s SpaceX , too , areplanning a trackto test out the technology .
Tentative plan for the first sour Hyperloop track have already beentouted in Europe , but this latest promulgation suggests that crack - ample Dubai may be the first out of the park . Whether it all amounts to anything , debate the multi - billion costs involved , remains to be see .
In the statement , Hyperloop One CEO Rob Lloyd said that the company was plan to make out its first full - graduated table run early next class at their test site in Nevada . He added they hoped to have “ multiple operating Hyperloop system within five days . ”
