comfortably from place to place in a blink of an eye. that's essentially the dream of the hyper loop. >> what is the hyper loop? >> it's very similar to an airplane on high altitudes. you have a low pressure environment inside a a tube, a capsule that doesn't touch anywhere, it hovers and because the low pressure doesn't encounter a lot of resistance. >> this concept of traveling around in tubes has been around for more than a century. then in 2013, they drafted up actual blueprints and put the challenge of building it to the engineering community. enter ucla. >> it's an unconventional system. so you sort of have to invent everything from the ground up. >> do we know what it's going to feel like traveling that fast? >> you'll accelerate, you'll feel almost no sense of motion. >> do you feel like you're working on a project that's really going to change the future? >> absolutely. if i have a date and i want to