When Elon Musk unveiled the Hyperloop
back in August, his critics were quick to scoff at his proposal for a
new, super fast mode of transportation. A number of people derided Musk’s
white paper as cartoonish and vague. Musk vowed to prove the naysayers
wrong by building an actual physical prototype, but that’s not expected
to arrive for years.
Meanwhile, some evidence has just appeared
that shows Musk may indeed be onto something. Ansys, the maker of very
high-end simulation software used to design planes, trains, automobiles
and all manner of other things, has fed the Hyperloop specifications
into a computer and come away impressed. “I don’t immediately see any
red flags,” says Sandeep Sovani, the director of land transportation
strategy at Ansys. “I think it is quite viable.”I'm personally excited about the possibilities of this concept. I this is what I consider innovation with real meaning - something that could actually make a difference in our future,
