Super high-speed rail Hyperloop a step closer to reality

Although the Falcon 9 of space travel has not been launched for nearly a week, the Elon Musk's high-speed intercity transport network, which he wants to build on Earth, is now a step forward.

Hyperloop Technology, the first start-up company based entirely on the concept of Hyperloop (the hyper-circuit train), recently received its first round of financing for 8.5 million dollars, and plans to complete the next round of funding for 80 million dollars in the year.

Hyperloop's team can describe it as "all-Star," Uber's main investor Shurvin Pichevar, Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, former deputy White House chief of Staff Joe Messina, X-prize founder Peter Diamandis,yammer founder David Sacks, SpaceX core engineer Brogan Bambrogan are part of the team.

The concept of "super high-speed rail Hyperloop" was proposed by Elon Musk in 2013,

Hyperloop system from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 30 minutes, the whole system of low friction, low-power, through the solar panels can provide daily electricity, passengers on the "pod" cabin, also do not need to be like aircraft, it takes time to ride, but with the walk.

But at that time Elon Musk said too busy, the project was once shelved. But he hoped that even if he hadn't done it, someone else would have been able to turn Hyperloop into reality along the idea. Last December, a company called Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) reopened Hyperloop projects in a crowdsourcing fashion.

However, unlike Elon Musk's initial vision, Hyperloop Technology will focus on shipping first, "using Hyperloop technology to get the goods to flow faster." "This seems to be a more sensible approach, after all, people are less demanding on the safety of freight than on passenger transport, and do not need to consider the human body for ultra-high speed tolerance."

In addition, although Elon Musk not have the energy to support Hyperloop, but have the financial resources. In January this year he published a tweet saying it plans to build a track in Texas to test Hyperloop for other companies and students to test.