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Details on the winning pod: http://hyperloop.warr.de/pod-ii/ http://hyperloop.warr.de/pod-ii/ IIUC it accelerates using a wheel pressed towards the track, powe
by tveita 9y ago
Details on the winning pod: http://hyperloop.warr.de/pod-ii/ http://hyperloop.warr.de/pod-ii/
IIUC it accelerates using a wheel pressed towards the track, powered by an electric engine... no fancy magnets or fans and air cushions.
It's cool, but it doesn't look a lot like the original Hyperloop white paper.
e: from the competition rules at http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/2016_0831_hyperloop_competition_ii_rules.pdf http://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/2016_0831_hyperloop..., it looks like they were at least using an evacuated tube.
- giarc 9y ago>It's cool, but it doesn't look a lot like the original Hyperloop white paper. That's the first thing I noticed. This seems like a competition for fast electric train.
- lucideer 9y agoFrom my understanding, it seems the main concept behind Hyperloop is a "fast electric train" in an evacuated tube. Other design details from the original spec. don't seem as central to the definition.
- InclinedPlane 9y agoAnd? The Wright Flyer had a terrible mechanism for flight controls, it's good that was moved away from. Innovation is about iteratively pursuing progressively better designs, even if they differ from your original concept.