We ’re only two months into 2018 and this twelvemonth has already impressed us withtechnologyaimed to make life easy .
supply to that list ultra - fast levitating capsules that can cut commute prison term by nigh 75 percent and we ’re convinced it might just be the undecomposed year ever .
Virgin just declare it will begin study on itsHyperloop Oneprototype that will zip commuters between Dubai and Abu Dhabi at speed up to 760 miles per hr ( 1,200 kilometers per 60 minutes ) .
The 87 - mile ( 140 kilometers ) trek normally takes 90 minute by auto . Hyperloop One supposedly cuts that down to just 12 minutes .
The super - libertine shipping organization ’s innovative track is a longsighted tube with air off . It essentially produce a vacuum that zips passenger fuel pod between destinations .
Each pod can hold 10 passengers . That might not fathom like much , but it has the potential to cede tens of thousands of people each day .
“ According to initial report , it will have a content to lift 10,000 passenger per minute in both directions , ” said executive director of the Rail Planning and Projects Development Abdulredha Abu Alhassan toKhaleej Times .
It may resemble a train car , but do n’t be fooled . Because of Hyperloop One ’s eminent speed , passenger must quell seated and buckled at all times .
That should n’t be a trouble considering the leather tail are designed by BMW .
Just do n’t expect the 12 - minute slide to take the scenic route .
“ There will be no windows . However , there will be interactional amusement screens at the armrest of the seats . The seats have been designed in a very futurist way , " said Alhassan .
Virgin plans to have three working Hyperloop systems by 2021 , the society said on itswebsite .
The UAE is n’t the only county getting Hyperloop fever . originally this month Washington D.C. give Elon Musk a license to protrude dig out – literally – into the opening of plug into the nation ’s capital to New York via a tunnel connection . A wagon train drive that commonly takes around three hours would take just 29 minutes .
The project is still under examination and Abdulredha enjoin an prescribed launch appointment has n’t been announced .
