Is the Hyperloop coming of age?

Business Daily

BBC

News, Business

4.4 • 796 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In November Virgin Hyperloop trialled its first ever journey with passengers, in the desert of Nevada. The futuristic transport concept involves pods inside vacuum tubes carrying passengers at high speeds. So with this proof of concept, are certified Hyperloop transport systems on the horizon? On today’s programme, we’ll hear from Mars Geuze, Chief Commercial Officer of Hardt Hyperloop, who have raised $10m to develop the technology in Europe, as well as Bibop Gresta, founder of Hyperloop Italia, who hints that a big announcement may be imminent. And we’ll also hear from Roseline Walker, Senior Safety and Risk Researcher for the Transport Research Laboratory, who outlines for us some of the concerns and obstacles the new technology faces.

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0:00.0	Hello there, I'm Ed Butler and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.
0:05.6	Today, the dream of vacuum-sealed subsonic transit is Hyperloop coming of age.
0:12.7	We're talking about complete new system that will revolutionize not only our life,
0:17.9	but how we build cities, how we transport goods, how we live. And we're doing it.
0:23.8	We have achieved amazing results. High-speed intercity pods, cheap, fast and green, they claim,
0:31.6	but the doubters still doubt. Even across desert in America or desert in Dubai, it would only
0:36.9	really be an expensive party piece for a very small rich elite.
0:40.2	You're not talking about a system that can really carry anyone usefully.
0:43.0	Business Daily from the BBC. In The Loop about the hype.
0:49.5	Pegasus, this is Capcom. Prepare for launch in 10.
0:55.1	The moment last month when Virgin Hyperloop got everyone very excited again about vacuum tube transit.
1:02.2	Three, two, one, watch.
1:06.6	And off they went.
1:09.0	Yes.
1:09.4	Yes.
1:10.6	Yes. Yes.
1:14.9	That was so good.
1:17.3	Oh, man.
1:18.8	What is it.
1:23.1	Okay, we did compress the time frame for that just a little bit, but only a bit.
1:27.3	That was the sound of two people, one of them Virgin Hyperloop CTO and co-founder Josh Geigle,
1:34.2	travelling 500 metres down a Nevada Desert test track in about 15 seconds,
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