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| Hyperloop: MIT students win contest to design Elon Musk's 700mph travel pods Hyperloop: MIT students win contest to design Elon Musk's 700mph travel pods | |
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| MIT student engineers won a competition to transform SpaceX and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk’s idea into a design for a Hyperloop to move pods of people at high speed. | MIT student engineers won a competition to transform SpaceX and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk’s idea into a design for a Hyperloop to move pods of people at high speed. |
| The Boston-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology was named the winner on Saturday after a competition among more than 1,000 college students at Texas A&M university in the city of College Station. | The Boston-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology was named the winner on Saturday after a competition among more than 1,000 college students at Texas A&M university in the city of College Station. |
| The Hyperloop is a high-speed ground transport concept proposed by Musk to transport “pods” of 20 to 30 people through a 12-foot diameter tube at speeds of roughly 700mph (1,127km/h). | The Hyperloop is a high-speed ground transport concept proposed by Musk to transport “pods” of 20 to 30 people through a 12-foot diameter tube at speeds of roughly 700mph (1,127km/h). |
| More than 100 university teams presented design concepts to a panel of judges in an event that began on Friday. | More than 100 university teams presented design concepts to a panel of judges in an event that began on Friday. |
| Delft University of Technology from the Netherlands finished second, the University of Wisconsin third, Virginia Tech fourth and the University of California, Irvine, fifth. | Delft University of Technology from the Netherlands finished second, the University of Wisconsin third, Virginia Tech fourth and the University of California, Irvine, fifth. |
| The top teams will build their pods and test them at the world’s first Hyperloop test track, being built adjacent to SpaceX’s Hawthorne, California, headquarters. | The top teams will build their pods and test them at the world’s first Hyperloop test track, being built adjacent to SpaceX’s Hawthorne, California, headquarters. |