Virgin Hyperloop completes the first human trial Hello World. I'm Imagination. In this video, I'm going to talk about how Virgin Hyperloop completes the first human trial. Virgin Hyperloop said it made history on Sunday as the first people successfully travelled in a hyperloop pod at the DevLoop test facility in the United States. “For the past few years,the Virgin Hyperloop team has been working on turning its technology into reality,” said Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group. “With today’s successful test, we have shown that this spirit of innovation will change the way people everywhere live, work, and travel in the years to come.” Josh Giegel, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, and Sara Luchian, Director of Passenger Experience, were the first people in the world to ride on this new form of transportation. The human testing was overseen by the industry-recognized Independent Safety Assessor (ISA) Certifer. Having undergone a rigorous and exhaustive safety process, the newly-unveiled XP-2 vehicle demonstrates many of the safety-critical systems that will be found on a commercial hyperloop system and is equipped with a state-of-the-art control system that can detect abnormal conditions and rapidly trigger appropriate emergency responses, as per a company release. The basic idea of Hyperloop as envisioned by Elon Musk is that the passenger pods or capsules travel through a tube, either above or below ground. To reduce friction, most -- but not all -- of the air is removed from the tubes by pumps. Overcoming air resistance is one of the biggest uses of energy in high-speed travel. Airliners climb to high altitudes to travel through less dense air; to create a similar effect at ground level, Hyperloop encloses the capsules in a reduced-pressure tube, effectively allowing the trains to travel at airplane speeds while still on the ground. The pods will get their velocity from an external linear electric motor -- effectively a round induction motor rolled flat. Under Musk's model, the Hyperloop would be powered by solar panels placed on the top of the tube which would allow the system to generate more energy than it needs to run. Supporters argue that Hyperloop is significantly better than high-speed rail. It is lower cost and more energy efficient because, among other things, the track doesn't need to provide power to the pods continuously and, because the pods can leave every 30 seconds, it's more like an on-demand service. It's also potentially two or three times faster than even high-speed rail and ten times the speed of regular rail services. The next stage for Hyperloop is to move beyond initial testing and feasibility studies, start long-distance trials of the technology, and, even more importantly, implementing the service commercially. That's all for today. Thanks for watching.