TRAVEL: 3 Teams Advance in Hyperloop Competition.

“We could see the different engineering approaches taken by the teams and talk with them about their pods,” explained David Goldsmith, an assistant professor at Virginia Tech University, which participated in the competition.

“We saw pods that had gone down different developmental paths, and we saw pods that had gone down the same path we had,” he told TechNewsWorld. “That was invaluable.”

The competition also helped the teams define the parameters of their knowledge.

“We now know what we don’t know,” Texas A&M’s Karpetis remarked. “We did not know a lot of little things, from electronics, to breaking, to levitation, to batteries.”

If you haven’t seen the amazing Hyperloop concept in action, here’s an excellent animated presentation.