The Swiss student team finishes the Hyperloop Pod competition in second place! (Photograph: Swissloop / ETH Zurich)
At yesterday's Hyperloop Competition in Los Angeles, the Swissloop pod achieved a top speed of 252 km/h. The team, comprising students from Empa, ETH Zurich and other Swiss universities reached second place. This is the fourth year that Elon Musk has challenged student teams from all over the world to build transport pods for the Hyperloop competition. The speed trial organised by the SpaceX founder is designed to refine the Hyperloop technology to the point where it will be possible one day to transport people and goods in pods through vacuum tubes at speeds of up to 1,200 kilometres per hour. Several hundred teams of students had applied, 21 were invited by SpaceX to the test site in Los Angeles. However, only four of them performed well enough in the test week to make it through to the final on 21 July. The finalists included Swissloop, an association of students from Empa, ETH Zurich and other Swiss universities.
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