MIT Team Wins Hyperloop Competition

Need a prototype for a futuristic high-speed transportation system? Just call the students at MIT.

The MIT Hyperloop Team beat over 100 other teams from schools around the globe in Elon Musk’s SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition Saturday at Texas A&M.

The Hyperloop is what Elon Musk sees as a high-speed pod-base transportation system, one that would shoot pods from city to city up to 700 miles per hour.

The next step for the MIT team will be building a pod to test on a 1-mile long track that is being built near SpaceX in California.

The MIT team consisted of: Philippe Kirschen, John Mayo, Chris Merian, Max Opgenoord, Greg Monahan, Chuan Zhang, Colm O’Rourke, Charlie Wheeler, Derek Paxson, and Laide Olams.

Photo courtesy of SpaceX