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Video: Evacuated Tube Transport.
An evacuated tube transport system has been proposed, which would allow six-person capsules to travel at speeds of up to 6,500km/h (4,040mph)with forces of only 1G.
Those speeds would take you from Los Angeles to New York in 45 minutes, or New York to China in two hours.
The system works using magnetic ‘levitation’ to glide the 1.5 meter diameter tubes along. Because the system is inside a vacuum tube, there is no resistance for the capsule, so after an initial energy boost to get it moving, it would (in theory) just coast along at the same speed, thanks to Newtons first law.
Small car folds up to 149cm.
The Hiriko electric car is meant for small trips around an urban city, with its maximum speed of 59mph powered by four electric motors.
The car folds up at the press of a button to become only 149cm/59” long. That’s half the space a normal compact car needs. With no side doors on the car, the driver gets in and out the front, with the entire windscreen able to lift up.
When the car hits the market in 2013, it is expected to cost only US$16,500.
