As Sebastian Gendron, the co-founder and CEO of Toronto-based hyperloop startup TransPod Inc., will attest, the idea of building something akin to a hyperloop has been around since the 1900s. "The basic idea is to put a vehicle the size of a train coach in a vacuum tube," Gendron told CBC News. The 1:50 scale hyperloop track designed by the Queen's Hyperloop Design Team. (Fakid Hossain)Groups like the Queen's Hyperloop Design Team are already working on building their own scale models of hyperloop technology. For hyperloop pioneers like Gendron and Cockfield, it's a matter of turning imagination into reality.

Source: CBC News July 21, 2017 22:18 UTC