Say goodbye to Salik and get ready to reach Abu Dhabi in 15 minutes! You might be able to travel from Dubai to Abu Dhabi in just 15 minutes in the near future, a future as near as 2020 according to Peter Diamandis.
Diamandis, the co-founder of the United States-based Planetary Resources visited the UAE accompanied by Brogan Bambrogan, the former rocket engineer of aerospace firm SpaceX, where they spoke to select journalists about Hyperloop.
What is Hyperloop?
In a nutshell, Hyperloop is a tube system with strong magnetic field that allows carriages to move inside in a frictionless environment.
Hyperloop is about reinventing transportation. This is about the future. This is like how mobile telephone reinvented the world many times over.
Hyperloop is expected to begin testing in 2016.
I brought Brogan here on this trip to introduce him to some leadership here in the Emirates, Diamandis said. If the UAE wants it, it could be operational before 2020, he added.
The hyperloop is the concept of Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind Tesla electric cars and SpaceX.
Read the full details of the project here.
