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How would you fancy hopping on to one of these for your morning commute?

It's called the a hyperloop, and it could be the future of public transport. It involves pods travelling along pressurised tubes at supersonic speeds.

This video below shows the first prototype, built by Hyperloop One.

The company hopes to realize a futuristic vision laid out three years ago by billionaire Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind electric car company Tesla and private space exploration endeavor Space X.

Its research and testing in the desert is not simply aimed at making a Hyperloop system possible -- its goal is to do it in a low-cost way that makes it possible to spread the technology around the world.

(Additional reporting by AFP)

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