Watch A Hyperloop Test Vehicle Do A 240mph Flyby

You can’t help but be fascinated by the prospect of hyperloop. The idea is you have a long, sealable tube, creating a near-vacuum and completely removing the problem of air resistance.

Then you use maglev technology to shoot a vehicle down it at high speeds, which is rather easy to do thanks to that lack of resistance. It’d be incredibly fast, and very efficient. Tesla CEO Elon Musk seems to think this is how many of us will be traveling in the future, but will we?

It’s a little too early to tell. So far all we’ve seen are scaled down models of the concept, like the recently re-branded Virgin Hyperloop 1 you see here, and the Space X/Tesla-branded test (below) run by a group of German students.

As we said when taking a look at 220mph testing footage from the latter setup, there are big hurdles to tackle like cost, technical feasibility and safety. But that doesn’t make it any less intriguing to watch people trying to make the concept a reality.