India has become the latest potential market for the two startups attempting to implement the pods-in-a-vaccuum-tube idea from billionaire Elon Musk
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Hyperloop is a superfast surface transportation system that could attain speeds as high as 760 miles-an-hour (1,216 kmph)
One proposal for such a system in India is from Mumbai to Pune, and Hyperloop Transporation’s Chairman Bibop Gresta asserts India could make it a reality in 38 months, if the government makes up its mind. That would reduce the travel time between the two cities to a matter of minutes, from the three-odd hours it takes today by road.“ India needs transformational growth and key to this is to embrace urbanisation through disruptive technology