Travelling in vacuum tubes may sound like science fiction. It is very futuristic and a throne start towards towers smart cities and upper tech suburbs. Really, it is just something you can watch in movies. Imagine travelling in tubes and crossing cities in just minutes. It sounds wacky and crazy. It’s tabbed Hyperloop!

And now, it’s getting real.

From a 57-page concept paper proposed by SpaceX and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk in 2013, companies are now invested to construct and demonstrate a test run of the Hyperloop this 2016. The Hyperloop Transportation Technologies recently spoken its signed agreements to partner with Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum and Aecom, an engineering diamond firm. All companies will share its expertise in engineering diamond and construction in mart for stock options in the company. The teams will consist of engineers and scientists from NASA, Boeing, SpaceX and Tesla moonlighting in the said Hyperloop project.

As per the project, the visitor aims to create a transportation system running faster than the speed of light at a potential of 760 mph. HTT bought a land field last year in Quay Valley for the construction of the Hyperloop. It aims to connect the HTT’s test track to the nearby solar powered concept municipality stuff built in King’s County in California as its main transportation system. The test track will be 5 miles long and will take 8 minutes travel time to the concept city. The release stage will be at the end of 2016.

Also, this year, SpaceX spoken its pod prototype competition opened to engineering students and other research entities to be tested on a 1-mile track near its headquarters in Hawthorne, California. The target testing will be held in summer this year. According to their website, though their aim is not to develop a commercial Hyperloop for themselves, SpaceX are interested in profitable and progressive the minutiae of a functional prototype.

Another company, tabbed HyperloopTechnologies, is moreover setting its own tracks for testing in the California desert.

Seriously, the tube transportation is really happening.

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