Hyperloop - Future Of Mobility, Customer Needs & Operational Viability

Hyperloop is a great example of tomorrow’s paradigm of innovation.

With a speed of 1,200 km/h, Hyperloop is a global technology that proposes to enable transportation from one place to another faster than anything else (except space travel, of course!).

In a vast country like India, a technology like this can do wonders in the transportation industry. Only time will tell when one can actually sit in a capsule and travel from Mumbai to Chennai in lesser time than a flight, but this surely is showing us how people across the world will use the power of an open source concept to change the way we live.

POSSIBLE BENEFITS OF HYPERLOOP TRANSPORTATION

Faster travel will always be the need of the hour because one will always want to cross huge distances in the shortest time possible. History is proof that faster modes of transportation have resulted in unimaginable levels of disruption. These possess the capacity to change the economy, cities and people’s lives. Even before waiting for a ride in the capsule, let us consider the benefits of this technological development.

It will help to collectively develop a range of technology architecture, material applications, software and hardware, which would find its way in other industries beyond transportation.

I am optimistic about the success of Hyperloop, and we would be able to take a ride in one of the capsules soon. Having said that, some experts doubt the proposed offerings of this technology as it brings along several limitations and can be unsafe. They believe that the experience of travelling in a tube at higher speeds would not be very pleasant and probably not advisable.