hyperloop system work. the full size pod is expected to fit around 25 people, but more importantly than that, it s going to house all of the tech that makes this hyperloop system work. now that s important because if something breaks or goes wrong, all they have to do is remove the pod and fix it somewhere else, instead of going into the tube and potentially disrupting a lot of travel. one of the key components of hyperloop travel is the ability to go really, really fast. so they designed away for the pods to levitate using opposing magnets, which in theory will help it go as fast as an aeroplane. the pods will travel in tubes about this size, and should be able to reach speeds of up to 670 miles per hour. that is fast enough to get
the manufacturing plants are, they don t have the right skills, and i suspect a lot of them wouldn t want to go and work in food manufacturing plants. food industry trade bodies warn there s now a chronic labour shortage across the whole supply chain. this business grows, imports and distributes fresh fruit and veg. there s everything here from carrots to pomegranates, and a lot of it ends up in high street restaurants. but here at this distribution centre, they re 20% short of staff. we are definitely going to start seeing more i supermarket shelves empty, restaurant plates empty. - and then, the big concern- ongoing from that is christmas. he supports calls for a temporary visa scheme to bring in food workers and lorry drivers from europe. isn t it more important to build a sustainable workforce from within the uk, and ultimately pay them more? i m more than happy to do that. but if the era of cheap
disrupting a lot of travel. one of the key components of hyperloop travel is the ability to go really, really fast. so they designed away for the pods to levitate using opposing magnets, which in theory will help it go as fast as an aeroplane. the pods will travel in tubes about this size, and should be able to reach speeds of up to 670 miles per hour. that is fast enough to get you from london to paris in under half an hour. the system of tubes can be built on land, over water or underground, and maybe, just maybe one day, across oceans. but building an entirely new infrastructure across a city or country will take a lot of work, and a lot of money. but virgin s hyperloop system isn t the only one being developed. underneath the streets of las vegas is another hyperloop tunnel, this one by the boring company yes, the one owned by elon musk. his system will essentially be
world comes about, it will be transformative not just for the drivers, but also for the cities, so we may need to rethink some of the basics. we re used to a lot of congestion on our roads but it seems here like this model of autonomous vehicles seems to actually overcome some of that congestion. so we know that people spend a lot of time driving around cities, creating congestion, looking for a parking space. with fully autonomous parking, you need fewer spaces. so that will reduce the requirement in infrastructure and in cities for the real estate needed for parking solutions. the vehicle will literally drive itself into a car park, find its spot, recognise the white lines and pull in and park itself. clearly, the technology has come a long way, but before our streets can be filled with autonomous vehicles, the companies need to figure out how to train them and we as a society need to be confident with the rules and the choices that we allow them to make. zoe kleinman s been findin
forms the wake behind an aircraft and causes the drag. the idea we have is to have a fan that s wrapped around the back of the fuselage and so itjust ingests all of this parasitic flow at the back of the aircraft and takes that in and re energise it and turns it into useful thrust. time is the enemy here, though. aerospace is traditionally a very conservative industry. can a significant amount of research and development occur in time to address the world s urgent climate issues? so if we re going to decarbonise aviation by 2050, then we need to get down to 1980s levels of emissions by 2030. so if you re looking at radically new concepts, you need to be able to work in a hardware rich environment, you need to be able to build and test a lot of things, because many of those ideas are going to fail. here in bedfordshire,