yes, yes! josh was on board for the maiden voyage. it was absolutely incredible, it was, like, surreal to be sitting inside of a hyperloop and the ride itself, you felt a little bit of acceleration, sort of like you would have in a sports car. so this is just a beta version of the pod. the final one is expected to be a lot bigger, think the size of a bus, but also a lot easier to get into. 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
some patchy fairweather cloud developing through the day and still quite breezy in east anglia and the south east of england and our top temperature probably be 20 21. cooler than that for eastern scotland and the north east of england under the cloud. we got high pressure in charge this weekend, still there into next week. the centre of the highs to the north west of the uk and it means the winds around it are feeding in off the north sea. those winds will drag in a lot of cloud around on monday. there may not be too much in the way of sunshine. the best of the sunshine will be towards the western side of the uk where we are more sheltered from what s likely to be a stronger wind in many areas on monday, and that wind off the north sea will make it feel cold around some of those north sea coasts, the best temperatures out towards the west, again 20, possibly pushing 21. tuesday looks fairly similar. if there is any sunshine first thing, it may fill up with cloud a bit more, a lot of c
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, blue bear systems specialise in building uavs for commercial and military use. they re leading a consortium, including engineers from cambridge, in designing a propulsion system for a small, zero
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 finding out more. this is what we were promised.
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 a underground motorway. old tv shows and movies may have led us to believe the future of transportation will include flying cars, but maybe the modern day version of that is actually a pod flying through a tube.