The future of transportation may have started to take shape in the American desert, with the first public test of a propulsion system supposed to power a futuristic very high-speed train project, "Hyperloop."
In front of the guests sitting in the bleachers, a sled slid along a short lane in the Nevada desert near Las Vegas, before braking and stopping in a bed of sand and a cloud of snow. dust, reported an AFP journalist.
We're a little closer to making Hyperloop Real - Rob Lloyd, CEO of Hyperloop One
Ultimately, the system tested Wednesday, May 11, 2016 by the American startup Hyperloop One is supposed to propel capsules carrying passengers or freight on air cushions in a low pressure tube, allowing them to travel in 30 minutes the some 600 kilometers from Los Angeles to San Francisco. Or the Hyperloop, this famous idea launched three years ago by the American billionaire Elon Musk. “Today we're a little closer to making Hyperloop real,” said startup CEO Rob Lloyd. “We will be carrying freight in 2019, and we believe we will have passengers safely transported by Hyperloop in 2021. ", he said. "We are on sacred ground for us. The team has worked incredibly hard to come up with what we call the preview of our Kitty Hawk," said Shervin Pishevar, co-founder of Hyperloop One. [Kitty Hawk is the small village in North Carolina near where the Wright brothers flew the first plane in 1903].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-IBFwvTRI
The project is not new indeed, it already existed Swiss Metro:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissmetro