Travelling at phenomenal speeds in future, when the distance between San Francisco and Los Angeles could be commuted in under half an hour seems a concrete reality as the US entrepreneur, Elon Musk, the inventor of high- speed Hyperloop transportation system has now announced plans for building a test track in southern California.

Travelling in a steel tube at unparalleled speeds of almost 1,287 kmph will be enabled by super capacitors which will replace the heavy, inefficient-by-definition batteries, thus assuring better power management and facilitating performance economics.

Dirk Ahlborn, CEO of a crowd sourcing platform for entrepreneurial projects, explained, "Well, imagine a capsule filled with people, hovering inside the tube. Inside the tube you create a low pressure environment very similar to an airplane that's at high altitudes. So now the capsule travelling inside the tubes doesn't encounter as much resistance and so therefore can travel really fast with very little energy".

Publicized first by Musk in 2012, Hyperloop till date faces initial cost hiccups as this transportation system is based on a system of tubes on pylons and so it would entail major infrastructural undertaking to create Hyperloop over long distances. Moreover, Hyperloop has been speculated to rely on unproven technologies.

Nonetheless, the benefits of this fast transport system are manifold. The Hyperloop will provide the much needed respite to the overloaded logistics systems of the present day but most importantly; this super-fast transportation system has great economic potentials. It will significantly save commuters for the exorbitant freight costs and will help to save time, which too has become much sought after commodity in the consumerist world.

Hyperloop can make distribution model much more cost-efficient and is a superb practical option for disaster relief as well.