It's TED Talks Daily. I'm Elise Hugh. Today, a super exciting talk about how we could get where we want to go so much faster in the near future.

Engineer and technologist Josh Geigle lays out the latest developments in a revolutionary idea for infrastructure that meets the needs of the 21st century.

As he says in his 2021 talk from Ted Monterey, it has the potential to transform the way we live.

Imagine you're planning a trip up the coast, but instead of driving, you decide to hop into a vehicle

shaped like a giant aluminum can.

Your heart pounds as you strapped yourself in.

The air is stagnant.

Beads of sweat are pulling on your brow as you prepare to launch.

The vehicle starts to move.

Before you know, you're going 500 miles an hour,

and you hope that the people in control know what they're doing. Turns out, that's just your

average airplane experience. And 118 years ago, before the Wright brothers' first flight,

the thought of humans flying was inconceivable, was crazy even. Yet today we get

into a plane 30,000 feet above the ground and think nothing of it. A year after the Wright

brother's historic first flight, another inventor, an American physicist named Robert Goddard,

proposed an entirely new form of transportation, the VAC train.

He envisioned a high-speed mass transit system where people would travel on the ground

with little to no air resistance inside of a tube, what we call a hyperloop. So for those of you

unfamiliar with the Hyperloop, this is the chance we get to geek out together a bit.

So Hyperloop is a transit system that has a vehicle called a pod inside of a tube about the same

size as a subway tunnel, where we suck most but not all of the air out of it, be the equivalent

of flying at about 200,000 feet of altitude. This allows us to glide at airline speeds without turbulence

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