{"id":18233,"date":"2017-01-22T10:01:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.munich-startup.net\/?p=18233"},"modified":"2024-04-17T09:36:56","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T07:36:56","slug":"munich-hyperloop-team-in-the-finals-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.munich-startup.net\/en\/18233\/munich-hyperloop-team-in-the-finals-in-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Munich Hyperloop Team in the final in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is supposed to be almost as fast as the speed of sound, the superfast train of the future, also called Hyperloop. In the "Hyperloop Pod Competition" sponsored by SpaceX, teams from around the world presented their concepts for the so-called pod, the cabin capsule in which passengers will be transported through the tube. WARR student group<\/a> is one of the 30 teams that were allowed to build their prototype. From January 27 to 29, the teams will compete against each other on the test track in the USA. Thomas Ruck, a student in aerospace engineering, explains how it all began and why the TUM students' pod is so special.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How did you come up with the idea of taking part in the competition?<\/b><\/p>\n

Thomas Ruck:<\/b> I can still remember that at the end of July last year, the three of us were sitting in a caf\u00e9 and thinking about how we could set the whole thing up. Mariana Avezum<\/strong>, who studies at the Department of Computer Science, saw on Facebook that SpaceX was running a competition to build a Hyperloop pod. She was immediately excited and started looking for people in mechanical engineering who wanted to do it with her. I was one of the first to say yes. Since then, the team has grown to 35 people, and now we're flying to Los Angeles, where the competition finals are starting.<\/p>\n