Traffic in the United States is worse than it’s ever been before. Our road infrastructure is in desperate need of repair. So is our public transportation systems. Twenty-first technology is here to help.
A group called Hyperloop Technologies is working on supersonic traveling. They want to move people and cargo so fast it rivals the spirit of sound. And it will be ground transportation. Hyperloop would travel through tubes at nearly at supersonic speed. With Hyperloop, one could travel from LA to San Francisco Technologies at 385 mph. It would get you there in 30 minutes! It takes an hour to fly from LA to San Francisco, and that’s just the flight alone. Inside this tube, there’s a pod for people and/or cargo. Hyperloop travel has been years in the making. Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed the design back in 2013. Musk argues this is the only way to have fast travel. They already have $90 million in funding. Hyperloop leaders are optimistic about the system being constructed within 3 years. They believe they’ll be moving cargo and passengers by 2021. If Hyperloop is successful, it could be one of the biggest breakthroughs in travel technology history. You could put it up there with the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk, Henry Ford building Model-T’s, or the Concorde flying from New York to London in four hours.
Personally, I hope this is successful. Americans waste 42 hours a year in traffic, and cost Americans $160 billion a year in vehicle destruction, wasted gas, and lost production. Yet California is the only state investing in bullet train transportation service. Some may call Hyperloop science fiction. I call it a great idea. I was in Boston during the blizzards of January/February 2015. Public transportation was crippled to a standstill for many weeks. In fact, it was St Patrick’s Day (March 17)?before things got back to normal. And Boston has one of the best public transportation systems in the nation! Now do you see why Hyperloop needs to be successful? Do you see why the United States needs supersonic travelling?