Germans too fast for TU Delft | Tech

Of a total of eighteen teams, three were finally allowed to make a real race in the Hyperloop tube on Sunday. Just before 21:00, the Delft team drove his first carrycot with 142 kilometers per hour through a tube vacuum vacuumed a kilometer long

The race was not going as planned. At the first countdown, the pod refused the service. A few minutes later, I was successful, but seeing the first reactions of the team in the stands, the result was disappointing. The Hyperloop team later said that she hoped to go further and faster. He had a serious attack on the 384 km / h record that was in the hands of the Elon Musk team.

Who succeeded the German students. They also won in April 2017, with a speed of 323 km / h. Now they have made more than 130 kilometers to the hour and have improved the old record of Musk.

Problems

After a week of testing, the Delft team was faced with serious software problems. Fortunately, the Hyperloop team managed to work around the problems and to make two successful tests in the tube without vacuum.

The moment of dignity. The Hyperloop team puts the pod in the tube for the record race

Ⓒ Photo: TU Delft

Through these successful races, the team was informed Sunday morning that she had been selected for an actual race alongside three other international teams in the 1.2-kilometer test tube next to the headquarters of the Musk Aerospace Corporation in Los Angeles

The Hyperloop Pod Contest was set up by Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors. With the competition, he wants to stimulate the development of a revolutionary form of fast and energy efficient transportation, in which people and goods travel at a speed of 1,200 kilometers per hour through very low pressure tubes. Challenge by Musk, student teams around the world designed, built and tested hyperloop pods