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		</div><p>Superfast travel system Hyperloop has reached a new milestone.</p>
<p>A pusher pod hit a record 220mph when travelling solo along SpaceX’s Hyperloop track in California.<br />
A video of the test run and a picture was shared by innovator and entrepreneur Elon Musk on his Instagram page who likened the experience to “racing with a tugboat”.</p>
<p>“We took the SpaceX/Tesla Hyperloop pusher pod for a spin by itself a few days ago,” he wrote.<br />
“Got up to 355 km/h (220 mph).” In the past week the track has been at the centre of a Hyperloop challenge where students competed to show off their prototype designs for a pod.</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_2208.jpg"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IMG_2208.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="333" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-113423" /></a></p>
<p>Some teams used the pusher pod to get started. Musk has said that with a “few tweaks” the pod could reach 500kmh (310mph) – about half the speed of sound. It comes only days after the student competition which saw the WARR team from the Technical University of Munich reach 201mph.</p>
<p>That eclipsed the previous top speed for a Hyperloop prototype of 192mph set by Hyperloop One, a California company. Musk first detailed the technology of Hyperloop in 2013. It is designed to move pods at high speeds through vacuum-sealed tubes. Once established it could ferry people, cars and cargo.</p>
<p>Two years later he set a challenge inviting others to develop the technology needed for the superfast transport method, which led to the recent competition.</p>
<p>Space X’s track is only 0.8 miles long which means the pods have to accelerate quickly to hit their top speed. Manned journeys – between cities would not be as uncomfortable, says Musk. The strobe lighting effect would also be removed.</p>
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