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Re:SpaceX is livestreaming a hyperloop pod competition by shadowfacts on Sunday January 29, 2017 @10:30PM (#13518436)
The pusher is only accelerating the test vehicles up to a fraction of that, so that they can achieve levitation and after that the vehicle is under its own power.

It wouldn't make for much of a competition if the SpaceX vehicle was the one doing all the work.

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Re:SpaceX is livestreaming a hyperloop pod competition by smbullet on Monday January 30, 2017 @12:13AM (#13518866)
Almost no pods have any kind of self propulsion. IIRC the whitepaper states the use of linear accelerators on the tube I-beams to propel the pod. That hasn't been integrated in the competition so the teams just coast at the pusher's 94km/h
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Re:SpaceX is livestreaming a hyperloop pod competition by skykooler on Monday January 30, 2017 @09:13AM (#13521288)
The pushers max speed was 80 km/h. The Warr team accelerated past that to hit 94.
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