Gallery: Meet the Students Racing to Make Elon Musk's Hyperloop a Reality

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    Elon Musk talked to the assembled teams at the start of the afternoon
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    Hyperloop pod specifications are general enough for a variety of designs
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    Musk's SpaceX built the 6 feet diameter, one mile long, steel tube as a test track
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    Students anxiously watch their pods progress
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    Pods used wheels, air levitation, or magnetic levitation in the tube
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    Eventually hyperloop pods will carry passengers. For now, they're scale models
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    Elon Musk peers into the end of the hyperloop tube
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    A screen with views from eight cameras allowed crowds to follow along
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    Teams spent a week at SpaceX testing and validating their designs
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    Students had to prove mechanical, electrical, and safety systems were ready for high speed, and for vacuum
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    The Delft Hyperloop team won the highest score
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    The prize for fastest speed, the most coveted, went to an ecstatic Warr Hyperloop team
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