超级高铁公开首测 时速接近音速
Hyperloop super-fast rail to hit milestone
Elon Musk's vision of a Hyperloop transport system that carries passengers in pressurised tubes at near-supersonic speeds is on track to hit a milestone.
伊隆·马斯克的超级高铁创想——加压密封车厢以近于超音速的速度运送乘客——即将见证里程碑式的新突破.
Musk outlined his futuristic idea in a paper released in 2013, challenging innovators to bring the dream to life.
马斯克2013年发表了一篇论文,阐述了这一未来设想,希望有富于改革创新精神的人将梦想变为现实.
Hyperloop Technologies, one of the startups that picked up the gauntlet thrown by Musk, is hosting a "sneak preview of the future of transportation technology" during a two-day event billed as involving a demonstration at a test site outside Las Vegas.
初创企业"超级高铁技术公司"接过了马斯克抛出的挑战.该公司近日将于拉斯维加斯郊外一处试验场进行为期两天的展示,给外界一个"未来交通技术预演".
A series of tweets fired from the Twitter account @HyperloopTech teased "big announcements you don't want to miss".
公司推特账号@HyperloopTech连发数条推文,直呼"将有重大事项宣布,你肯定不想错过".
- Kitty Hawk moment -
基蒂霍克时刻
Late last year, Hyperloop chief executive Rob Lloyd said in an online post that the team was working toward a "Kitty Hawk" moment in 2016.
去年底,"超级高铁技术公司"CEO罗勃·劳埃德在一篇网帖中称,公司团队将于2016年缔造"基蒂霍克"时刻（背景知识：莱特兄弟1903年于北卡罗来纳的基蒂霍克首次试飞飞机成功）.
The post came with word of an agreement to use an industrial park in the city of North Las Vegas to conduct a Propulsion Open Air Test of the blazingly-fast rail system.
与网帖同时出现的还有一则消息：该公司已达成相关协议,将于拉斯维加斯北部一处工业园进行超级高铁的"露天推进试验".
Lloyd described it at the time as a very important step on the way to realising the full potential of Hyperloop Tech.
