The Hyperloop Whooshes to a 240-MPH Speed Record

[Announcer] If you've been dying to know

what it's like to ride in the Hyperloop

at hundreds of miles an hour.

Well, this is what it looks like.

Last week, Hyperloop One, one of the

companies leading the charge to bring

Elon Musk's dream of flying through

near vacuum tubes at borderline supersonic speeds,

set a new speed record.

At its test track in a Nevada desert,

a 28 foot long pod climbed into a

1,600 foot long concrete tube.

Thanks to some hard working vacuums,

the inside of the tube felt like it

was 200,000 feet above sea level,

what the scientists call near space.

An airlock sealed the pod inside the

nearly airless tube and the pod used

magnetic levitation to hover over the

track to further reduce friction,

the great enemy of high speed travel.

And then, whoosh!

Just a few seconds later, the pod had

set a new speed record, 240 miles per hour.

That's faster than the 220 mile an

hour mark Elon Musk hit this summer

in the fastest publicly announced Hyperloop run.

To go with this new result, Hyperloop one also

announced Richard Branson is coming

aboard as chairman, it just raised

50 million dollars, and it's got a new name.

Virgin Hyperloop One.

Sure the day you get to climb aboard is years away,

and that's being generous, but at this

rate the future just might whoosh

by you sooner than you expect.