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Hyperloop and flying cars add hype to Slovakia's startup craze

After transforming itself into an automotive hub, a reverse 'brain drain' is taking hold in the country

Published Fri, Jul 8, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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AN hour's drive from Bratislava, engineers are working up a prototype reminiscent of James Bond's extrication of a Soviet defector from the Slovak capital to Austria in the 1987 film, The Living Daylights. Instead of a one-man capsule, the 10-foot-high real-life version is designed to haul up to 50 passengers through a Hyperloop tube within eight minutes to Vienna.

C2i, the 11-year-old company started by…

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