’It felt like I was sitting in an idea’ recalls Hyperloop One traveller

Mumbai: You might be sitting in a pod hurtling through the desert at over 170km a hour, but what you notice is the silence. “There is no air inside the tube, so it’s all very quiet,” Josh Giegel, co-founder and chief technology officer of Virgin Hyperloop One, said after he did the historical human trial ride in a hyperloop three days ago. Tanay Manjrekar, an engineer originally from Pune who now works for Virgin Hyperloop One in Los Angeles, working on its distributed control systems, was on the second test ride. Last month, Virgin Hyperloop picked the US state of West Virginia to build a $500 million certification centre and test track and a production vehicle for 28 passengers. In 2018, the Maharashtra government had approved Virgin Hyperloop One-DP World-led consortium's plans to develop a high-speed line between Mumbai and Pune.