Munich students win the Hyperloop – Business competition

• The Hyperloop is a project of Elon Musk: travel capsules should be used as a means of transport in vacuum tubes
• In competitions, teams face off to send a vehicle through the tube as quickly as possible. ] The student team of Munich won again

It does not happen often that in a competition that concerns speed, for the # 39, one of the participants is worth a huge delay. Students from the Technical University of Munich, the Scientific Association for Rocket and Space Technology (WARR), were waiting for their participation in the "Hyperloop Pod Competition" on Sunday at the company's premises. SpaceX space travel in Los Angeles. Swiss competitors had taken much longer than expected because of technical problems, delaying the start of more than an hour.

As a luxury silver vehicle of the mark Tesla approached, registration plate BCYB294 and people suspected that it would include Elon Musk, the billionaire and futuristic, founder of SpaceX and Tesla and initiator of the idea to revolutionize the transport of pbadengers not only with electric cars, but through a network of capsules be chased through almost entirely airless tubes over 1000 kilometers per hour. Musk called it "hyperloop" in a concept paper five years ago, and for two years, students presented their (non-patented) ideas to their peers (and to Musk's engineers as well).

The previous two competitions won by the WARR team did not appear before the awards ceremony, but due to delays, he arrived just in time to experience the capsule of Munich in the tunnel 1.6 kilometer long

So standing among excited students, watching the screen fascinated – much more is not visible in such a race – and in the end, he saw the speed: 290 miles per hour. More than 466 km / h. New recording in the Hyperloop tube. A success for students, and a success for Musk, who scolds everyone who does not fully share his visions, like some hard-nosed idiots.

"There are people in the world who always want to do the same things" Musk enthusiastic students: "What we see here are things of the future – it's as exciting as it is. ;landing." After the invention of the car, some people would have said that such a horse was a great driving force: "There are enough people who appear pessimistic or depressed in the future." Ideas like these are the few things in the world. people can look forward to the future. "Greetings to the students, who obviously do not care that Musk is praised above all."

Musk's environment now tells him that he wants to make the next competition in an underground tube that the tunnel digs to just a giant exercise from The Boring Company on the Space X site that Musk founded a year and a half ago because traffic in Los Angeles had angered him tremendously .He has always been a master in the art of combining ideas and companies.

"It's a special experience for a student when someone like Elon Musk is in the middle of a team race for our capsule "Enthusiastic," said Gabriele Semino, one of the team's WARR team leaders: "This offsets the many hours we have invested in this project." He had not a lot of sleep these last weeks, he wanted to catch up after a party with his team: "Although it is not true: some of us can not rest – when they go home, they have to pbad exams. "