[00:00.12]In the United States, a company is working on a project
[00:04.20]that could change the way we think about public transportation.
[00:09.12]Its planned system would move people around in steel tubes.
[00:14.72]Those passengers would be traveling at speeds
[00:17.84]of up to 1,200 kilometers per hour.
[00:22.76]The futuristic steel tube transportation system is called Hyperloop.
[00:28.84]Workers plan to test the system next year
[00:33.12]in a specially built community called Quay Valley.
[00:37.24]The town will be powered entirely by energy from the sun.
[00:41.90]The Hyperloop transport system is the idea of businessman Elon Musk.
[00:49.08]Dirk Ahlborn is head of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies.
[00:54.48]He says his company has taken Mr. Musk's idea
[00:58.80]and is developing a system that will be safe,
[01:02.16]environmentally friendly and fast.
[01:05.64]"It's 100 percent solar powered...we're not going to get up to 760 miles per hour,
[01:10.14]but we believe we can actually break the records that are existing right now."
[01:14.72]This means that a four-hour drive from Los Angeles, California
[01:19.44]to Las Vegas, Nevada, could someday take only 30 minutes by Hyperloop.
[01:26.12]The system involves a series of capsules that float inside a long tube.
[01:32.40]These containers would not need to travel along a pathway or track.
[01:37.52]The system has been designed to operate above or below ground.
[01:42.88]"Inside the tube you create a low pressure environment very similar to an airplane that's at high altitudes.
[01:48.73]So now the capsule travelling inside the tube doesn't encounter as much resistance,
[01:53.15]and therefore can travel really fast with very little energy."
[01:57.08]Dick Ahlborn and his company will use an eight-kilometer track in Quay Valley to find the best way
[02:04.32]to set up passenger traffic and repair capsules.
[02:08.80]A larger system will cost an estimated six to $10 billion to build.
[02:15.40]If Mr. Ahlborn and his company succeed,
[02:18.28]we may one day see these very fast Hyperloop capsules
[02:22.91]speeding through tubes around the world.
[02:26.24]I'm Jonathan Evans.