MIT engineers win Hyperloop pod competition, will test prototype in mid-2016 [feedly]

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MIT engineers win Hyperloop pod competition, will test prototype in mid-2016
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

The Hyperloop's journey from audacious concept to a functional, superfast transport system went up a gear over the weekend with more than 115 engineering teams descending on Texas A&M University to present passenger capsule designs in SpaceX's Hyperloop Pod Competition. An MIT team took out first place in the contest, and along with 22 other top designs it will now build human-scale prototypes to test out at SpaceX HQ later in the year.

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