Shervin Pishevar Quotes

Hyperloop is the ultimate pinnacle of that idea of, 'Can we actually shrink space and time?'

In the same way we have a long-term plan for building roads, we have to have a long term plan to build transit.

We want transportation as reliable as running water.

What we're trying to accomplish is the cheapest, fastest, cleanest form of major public transportation. There's economic value in being able to move people and things fast - and without any delays, because the hyperloop is impervious to weather.

Hyperloop One is the American Dream, and it's fast becoming an American reality.

The Hyperloop One Global Challenge started as a call to action for innovators, engineers, trailblazers, and dreamers around the world who shared our vision of creating a new mode of transportation. The Global Challenge became a movement of thousands of people from more than 100 countries over six continents.

Hyperloop One will move people and things faster than at any other time in the world.

At the end of the day, I live in Silicon Valley and L.A., and for selfish reasons, I'd love to have Los Angeles and San Francisco connected with the Hyperloop.

In the U.S. and abroad, there's incredible positivity towards Hyperloop. People are excited about it, and it's really begun to capture people's imaginations.

We're very focused on building the hyperloop. And the hyperloop is exactly something we've described as an actual tube with levitation propulsion and a vacuum that essentially vents around sky inside the tube flying at 200,000 feet. That, to us, is the hyperloop, and we're the only company building that.

The hyperloop will be a digital network. That's why we say we look at transportation as a new form of broadband.

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

I hope one day when I say I'm from Estonia, people don't say: 'What? Where's that?'

The tragic thing is that we're letting our transportation system crumble at the exact moment we need to build it up.

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

The fact is that America relies on Amtrak to move people.

The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.'

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

An injunction can't run a subway.

This rapid transit underground road is necessary for the accommodation and comfort of new York City residents.

I do periodically ride a bus with my kids.

We need a first-class transportation system.

People want subways, folks... subways, subways. They don't want these damn streetcars blocking up our city!

When you hear the sound of the Hyperloop One, you hear the sound of the future.

Public transportation is like a magnifying glass that shows you civilization up close.