but virgin's hyperloop system isn't the only one being developed. loop tunnel, this one by the boring company — yes, the one owned by elon musk. his system will essentially be a underground motorway. old tv shows and movies may have led us to believe the future of transportation will include flying cars, but maybe the modern day version of that is actually a pod flying through a tube. that was cody. now electric vehicles are becoming commonplace on many roads. but the problem is, you've got to charge them, and it's not always as simple as we'd like it to be. so how about putting down the lead and opting for a spot of wireless charging, courtesy of the road? just think of it as being like putting your mobile phone on a wireless charger. the aim of this taxi isn't to be fully recharged, butjust to get a bit of a boost while it's waiting at a taxi rank without any passengers. but maybe we are missing something here. why worry about recharging the batteries, when we could just be swapping them? stephen beckett has been to taiwan to look at some other way

we have the virgin hyperloop and shuttle buses and a lot of drones at the testing center for those. now, we have another player with the advanced air mobility technology and companies seem anxious to develop this. this is a new challenge to air traffic management. these will be operating outside the usual flight path. i would ask the administration if they wouldn't discuss having emerging technologies integrated into the system and if our subcommittee needs to be helping to make that process easier. in the past, we seem to be behind the curve. canada, australia, they all got ahead of us. would you all address that for me? >> thank you, representative titus. we are currently working with the industry to understand this issue. most of that work requires government and private partnerships, because they are responsible for the vehicles. the faa regulatory committee will work with them to make sure they are safe and allow research programs. we would need to know what to do in the air space, how they plan to use the airspace, so we can make sure we have the appropriate data to integrate

virgin galactic insists nothing wrong happened. they say pilots modified the flight path because of high altitude wind. the company did acknowledge the spacecraft did drop below altitude it was approved for at 1:41. branson's hyperlooput on the weight of the smithsonian. rachel brown with details. >> it has never been done before. >> version hyperloop's x two pod is history and future had -- and one. by sucking out the atmospheric pressure, the pod magnetically moves at 670 miles per hour. in november 2020, it completed its first test run with passengers in las vegas. >> we are hoping to get them up and running by the end of the decade. >> now, the version hyperloop is making history yet again. it is getting packed up to head to washington, d.c. where it will be featured in the smithsonian futures exhibit. >> this is inspiring and gives us hope for the p richard -- for the future. >> their hope is to commercialize the vehicles, building pods that will allow for 28 passengers, creating incredible opportunities for people to travel hundreds of miles in minutes. traveling as fast as a plane, on ground. >> the ability to move people between cities and regions in minutes could change the way we move everything. >> up spe