Virgin Hyperloop has carried out a security check of the new transport system

For the first time in the world, Richard Branson’s Virgin Hyperloop carried passengers with a super-high-speed hyper-loop system. As the company said in a statement last Sunday, it expects this important safety test to transform the transportation of people and cargo.

The test tour was attended by Virgin Hyperloop executives Josh Giegel, Chief Technology Officer, and Sara Luchian, Director of Passengers. The trip through the pipeline at the company’s test site, DevLoop, in Las Vegas, Nevada, was 172 kilometers per hour.

The Hyperloop system works by magnetic levitation, so the journey between New York and Washington would take place in near silence and would take only half an hour. The trip would be twice as fast as flying a commercial airplane and four times as fast as a high-speed train.

Virgin Hyperloop has previously conducted around 400 unmanned tests in Nevada. The company aims to reach 2025. to obtain the necessary security certificate, and from 2030 to start business trips.