MIT Hyperloop

A team of MIT scholar designers is heading to California with a idea pod, a vision for the future of transportation, and a unique intention: to win the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod opposition.

This weekend the MIT Hyperloop crew may be firing their idea pod alongside a 1-mile check song in Hawthorne, doubtlessly bringing the arena in the direction of what SpaceX CEO Elon Musk describes as a "fifth mode of transportation."

The Hyperloop, a excessive-speed transportation concept dreamed up with the aid of Tesla vehicles and Musk, involves human beings using internal a system of tubes connecting main towns. inside the new travel paradigm, human beings are propelled in pods through tubes maintained in a near-vacuum. within the absence of air or floor friction, the pods journey at near the speed of sound, the usage of low-electricity propulsion systems.

There are 3 judging stages: a layout opposition that become held in January 2016 and an on-tune competition to be held Jan. 27-29, accompanied via a very last competition this summer time.

MIT's crew of 28 students become provided first-rate normal layout throughout the layout opposition amongst entries from one hundred fifteen college teams from 20 international locations. The MIT crew includes college students concentrating in aeronautics, mechanical engineering, electric engineering, and commercial enterprise management. it's certainly one of 30 groups that have been invited to construct a Hyperloop pod and check it this weekend.