Earlier this month in North Las Vegas, a company called Hyperloop One carried out the first tests of the high-speed Hyperloop transportation technology. Initially conceived by SpaceX founder Elon Musk as the "fifth mode of transport," the Hyperloop would revolutionize modern travel by sucking a pod through a tube at nearly 800 miles mph.
Hyperloop One is only one of the companies racing to turn Musk's vision from pipe dream (pun intended) into reality. Its principal competitor is Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), which on Tuesday revealed that their capsules would be lined with a special kind of smart carbon fiber they are calling vibranium.
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