Elon Musk's futuristic dream of shooting people 700-mph through steel vacuum tubes -- called Hyperloop -- still feels mostly like a pipe dream. But Hyperloop's leading startup, the recently renamed ...
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How Elon Musk’s sci-fi hyperloop failed

We have no idea what we’re doing,” declared Elon Musk, standing beside a yawning “test trench” in Southern California in 2017. A crowd of engineering students and tech reporters hooted and hollered, ...
We step away from the bright lights of CES 2018 to take a close look at Virgin Hyperloop One's full-scale test facility in the Nevada desert. Antuan started out in the automotive industry the ...
Hyperloop One had once dreamed of building a high-speed freight link between Europe and China, one that could take cargo from one end to the other in a single day. That will, however, remain one of ...
The year is 2030. You’re in a sleek pod-like capsule that’s levitating inside a low pressure steel tube and accelerating across the country at speeds of more than 600 miles per hour. This is Hyperloop ...
The promise of hyperloop ranks near the top of the spectacular index: a network of tubes that will shoot people and their things from city to city at near supersonic speeds. But even if you never ...
Elon Musk is back in the loop. Four years after encouraging anyone and everyone to try making his crazy hyperloop idea work, the Silicon Valley titan has decided he's not too busy to do it himself ...
Think of how well-traveled and eco-responsible you would be if you could economically zip between cities at speeds exceeding 700 miles per hour in a comfortable, carbon-neutral way. Without going to ...
Virgin Hyperloop on Sunday successfully tested human travel in its high-speed levitating transport system for the first time ever. The hyperloop pod transported two passengers — two of the company's ...
Virgin Hyperloop CTO Josh Giegel (left) and director of passenger experience Sara Luchian prepare for their world-first passenger test run in Nevada. “Hyperloop is for everyone. It’s not for the 1%; ...