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Student engineers build hyperloop test pods with commercial-class top speeds
Though only two pods got vacuum tube time, lots of impressive pods were on display.

Megan Geuss - 7/23/2018, 1:00 PM
 
 
HAWTHORNE, CA—On a sweltering day in Southern California, 20 groups of student engineers gathered on a side street near the SpaceX headquarters to show off the Hyperloop pods that they had spent the better part of a year putting together.

The teams had spent the previous days showing SpaceX engineers their designs and testing them in vacuum chambers and on open-air tracks. The SpaceX engineers voted on their favorite teams, and the top three were awarded time on the three-quarter-mile low-pressure test track that SpaceX has built next to its headquarters. Delft University of Technology, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPF), and WARR (a student group within Munich Technical University) were the three teams to win the coveted tube time.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/07/student-engineers-build-hyperloop-test-pods-with-commercial-class-top-speeds/

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