Traffic sucks more when it’s ironic. This is what I think on the clogged freeways en route to an office park near UC Irvine, where a team of undergrads is working on a cure for traffic and, in a way, for the problems of distance. In one corner of an empty warehouse, 23-year-old Patricio Guerrero Gertz shows me an artful assembly of valves, electronics, and metalwork. It’s a hyperloop pod designed to float on compressed air and brake with magnets that’ll amnesiate your phone. “This is kind of a little over-built, honestly,” he says. “But you have to do that when you’re going 230 miles per hour.” Guerrero Gertz put together his team, HyperXite, in 2015 to compete this month in a terrifying soapbox derby…View Original Post
Traffic sucks more when it’s ironic. This is what I think on the clogged freeways en route to an office park near UC Irvine, where a team of undergrads is working on a cure for traffic and, in a way, for the problems of distance. In one corner of an empty warehouse, 23-year-old Patricio Guerrero Gertz shows me an artful assembly of valves, electronics, and metalwork. It’s a hyperloop pod designed to float on compressed air and brake with magnets that’ll amnesiate your phone. “This is kind of a little over-built, honestly,” he says. “But you have to do that when you’re going 230 miles per hour.” Guerrero Gertz put together his team, HyperXite, in 2015 to compete this month in a terrifying soapbox derby…View Original Post