Hyperloop Pod competition

SpaceX announced an open competition to design and build the best Hyperloop pod, the idea for a new high-speed ground transport system.

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This is the official announcement of the SpaceX‘s competition, towards university students and independent engineering teams, to design and build the best Hyperloop pod:

Neither SpaceX nor Elon Musk is affiliated with any Hyperloop companies. While we are not developing a commercial Hyperloop ourselves, we are interested in helping to accelerate development of a functional Hyperloop prototype.
Will be building a Hyperloop test track for companies and student teams to test out their pods. Most likely in Texas.

For this reason, SpaceX is announcing an open competition, geared towards university students and independent engineering teams, to design and build the best Hyperloop pod. To support this competition, SpaceX will construct a one-mile test track adjacent to our Hawthorne, California headquarters. Teams will be able to test their human-scale pods during a competition weekend at the track, currently targeted for June 2016. The knowledge gained here will continue to be open-sourced.

Hyperloop Pod

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