An anonymous reader quotes GeekWire:
The speediest team from SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s first Hyperloop pod competition has done it again: WARR Hyperloop from Germany’s Technical University of Munich won today’s second contest by sending its magnetic-levitation pod through a nearly mile-long test tunnel at a peak speed of 201 mph. Musk announced WARR’s victory to a crowd in the stands at SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and in a tweet… This weekend’s competition brought about two dozen teams to Hawthorne, including a student group from the University of Washington. Each of the teams developed a pod that was designed to test engineering approaches for Musk’s Hyperloop rapid-transit concept, which calls for sending people and cargo through low-pressure tubes at near-supersonic speeds.
Musk also tweeted that it “might be possible to go supersonic” in the 0.8-mile test Hyperloop tube, though he conceded it would require an extremely high acceleration (and deceleration) because of the short distance.

“For passenger transport, this can be spread over 20+ miles, so no spilt drinks.”

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Source: Slashdot – 201 MPH Pod Run Wins SpaceX’s Second Hyperloop Competition