Tag: hyperloop
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Pod Racers Wanted: SpaceX Announces Hyperloop Competition
Hawthorne, California is hardly Tatooine—but if entrepreneur and Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] CEO Elon Musk gets his way, both will boast pod racing. Plenty of details are still to come, but SpaceX, which is also headed by Musk, has announced a competition to challenge universities and independent teams to design pods for the Hyperloop concept…
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Has The Nürburgring Just Banned Lap Record Attempts?
Though there’s no official sanctioning body for Nürburgring-Nordschleife lap times, setting a lap and posting a video of the attempt online has become one of the most popular means for automakers to promote the performance of their cars. Of course, there are also critics of the practice. They typically either site the number of…
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Believe The Hype: California Will Get Hyperloop Test Track
In 2013, Elon Musk—not content to simply impact the world via his disruptive companies Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] and SpaceX—made headlines when he released the idea for mass transit system called the Hyperloop. Simply put, the concept reads like a combination of train and pneumatic tubes, and works using a combination of magnetic force…