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Prototype passenger pod designs for Elon Musk's proposed 1,000kph 'Hyperloop' transportation system have been revealed.
They will travel within a passenger pod which would be released into space by the shuttle and then guided inside the core of the rotating space island by a pair of space-tugs.
Eventually, World View wants to be able to send balloons up that can even carry a passenger pod, for stratosphere tourists and science crews.
Well, except making this thing real: It's very much still a concept, though its 8.5-foot long monocoque carbon-fibre passenger pod is built-to scale and on the show floor at Geneva, as are the wheeled ground module and quadcopter drone air transit system.
Eight airbags under the passenger pod ensure a comfortable landing.
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We imagine electric vehicles designed with passengers in mind (private modular passenger pods, Wi-Fi, "first class" seating, etc).
The pitch is that this tunnel would enable The Boring Co. to create networks of electric-powered sleds or 'skates' that could transport passenger pods, personal vehicles and cargo at high speed, autonomously, routing goods and people like network traffic.
Since 2011, on a closed course between the terminal and the Business Car Park, 2.4 miles away, a fleet of 21 diminutive passenger pods have ferried as many as 1,000 passengers each day, quietly logging well more than 1m autonomous miles in the process.
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But it is encouraging others to build it, and today announced a design competition wherein others can submit their own ideas for the passenger-carrying pods themselves.
It's similar to a concept video he shared previously regarding how Boring Co.'s tunnel network might work, but it replaces elevators for cars and commercial vehicles that then turn into sleds that move along the underground system with contained multi-passenger shuttle pods.
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