Virgin Hyperloop One carries first passenger on test run

In a recent milestone event, the Hyperloop system successfully transported its first passengers as part of the initial test runs of the upcoming future transportation system. The test run was conducted by Virgin Hyperloop, a US-based company that plans to bring magnetic transportation to India in the next few years.

Now, in case you didn’t know, Hyperloop is the next form of high-speed transportation that aims to harness the power of magnetic levitation to achieve airplane-like speeds. The idea was created by Tesla’s Elon Musk in 2012, and since then many companies have been working on it to bring this mode of transportation to market as quickly as possible.

However, because Hyperloop is a first-of-its-kind concept, the safety of passengers traveling within these tubes is a major concern. To address these concerns, Virgin Hyperloop’s newly announced two-seater XP-2 test system recently completed its first passenger test run at the company’s DevLoop test site in Las Vegas, Nevada. I did it.

“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked the question, ‘Is Hyperloop safe?’ With today’s passenger test, we successfully answered this question and confirmed that Virgin Hyperloop can safely transport people in a vacuum environment. “Not only can we put it in a pod, but we’ve demonstrated that the company has a thoughtful approach to safety that has been verified by an independent third party,” said Jay Walder, CEO of Virgin Hyperloop. said.

Now, the Hyperloop system is supposed to reach high speeds of 760 mph (about 1,223 km/h), but Virgin’s test system was only able to achieve a top speed of 107 mph (about 172 km/h) . However, the company says the goal of the test was not to reach record speeds, but to successfully transport the first passenger from one point to another in a low-pressure tube. This showed that the new mode of transportation is fairly safe for transporting passengers.

“For the past few years, the Virgin Hyperloop team has been working to bring ground-breaking technology to life, and today’s successful test shows that this spirit of innovation will transform people around the world into their lives and work in the coming years. , has proven to really change the way we travel,” company founder Sir Richard Branson said in an official press release .