I’ve posted before about the Evacuated Tube Transport, which, like Elon Musk’s Hyperloop, is another potential way for faster and more efficient travel. In case some of you weren’t reading back the site back then, here’s a new piece from Melissa Knowles at Yahoo! about ET3’s proposed transporter of cargo (and, eventually, people):

“The tubes would be set up like freeways to prevent crowding and traffic congestion problems. Plus, ET3 claims that passengers need not worry about feeling discomfort while traveling at such high speeds. The high velocity at which the tubes move is equal to 1G of force at top speed, which is similar to the force felt by someone traveling in a car on the freeway.

Daryl Oster, the founder and CEO of ET3, says that he got the idea for the tube transport system when he visited China back in the 1980s.

When and if the tubes make their debut in the next decade, they will initially be used to transport cargo, not people.”