Here's what Hyperloop pods could one day look like
The SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition, which kicked off in June 2015, will culminate in Competition Weekend at the SpaceX test track in Hawthorne, Calif. The exact date of the final round of the competition hasn't been announced, which means the teams remaining in the competition have to be ready to compete at any point this summer (although a leaked email from SpaceX pins the competition date sometime in August).
More than 115 student engineering teams competed in the most recent round of competition, Design Weekend, which was held at Texas A&M University in January 2016. After Design Weekend, 30 teams were chosen to advance to the final round (since then, University of Toronto's team has dropped out of the competition, leaving 29 teams in the running).
As Competition Weekend draws nearer, teams from around the world have sent us renderings of what their pods will look like. Here are some of the designs.