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> nearly all of them have day jobs at companies like Boeing, NASA, Yahoo!, Airbus, SpaceX, and Salesforce. > A lot of the work is being done by 25 UCLA student
by pjungwir 12y ago
> nearly all of them have day jobs at companies like Boeing, NASA, Yahoo!, Airbus, SpaceX, and Salesforce.
> A lot of the work is being done by 25 UCLA students.
Huh? So at least 25% of the group are students, but "nearly all" are employed by name-brand companies?
- trose 12y agoMaybe it's 25 students + 100 working professionals?
- pjungwir 12y agoI thought so too, but then there is also this line: > At some point, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies will likely have to shift from this work-when-you-can-but-don't-expect-money model to something a bit more conventional with, you know, employees. So no one is actually full time. I'm thrilled to see people working on this, but the article seems like a mess.
- bostonpete 12y agoThe "nearly all of them have day jobs" seems to clearly refer to the 100 engineers mentioned earlier in the paragraph. I think trose's description of them as working professionals is probably correct. The 25 students would not be considered engineers -- in fact, it doesn't even sound like they're studying to be engineers.
- th0br0 12y agoIt was my understanding that those 25 UCLA students work at the UCLA lab mentioned in the text and are essentially just an out-sourced free design agency. In addition to the 100 "engineers etc":