Elon Musk, Hyperloop and Austin
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Elon Musk said The Boring Company is working on a high-speed tunnel that could carry passengers between Austin and San Antonio in less than 30 minutes.
Banner image: CU Hyperloop team members stand around their boring machine at a test site in Las Vegas. (Credit: CU Hyperloop) Imagine living in a city in the distant (or maybe not-so-distant) future: You need to make an appointment across town, so you step ...
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company announced that it is starting testing on its first full-scale high-speed Hyperloop transportation system. The company might fulfill Musk’s vision for a new mode of transportation 10 years after unveiling it. But there ...
In June 2017, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to make what seemed like a huge announcement. His less-than-a-year-old Boring Company—a venture dedicated to vanquishing traffic by quickly building futuristic underground high-speed mass ...
The Hyperloop was supposed to shuttle passengers incredible distances at 700 miles per hour. The brainchild of tech visionary Elon Musk, it was proposed as a long, underground tunnel system that would propel bus-like pods of passengers at near-supersonic ...
Elon Musk’s tunnel startup The Boring Company plans to begin “full-scale” testing of hyperloop, a still theoretical transportation system that sends passengers in autonomous electric pods through a tube at speeds in excess of 600 miles per hour.
Hyperloop could start to form an interconnected mesh of electric cars and flying machines in just five years’ time, with the famously difficult-to-achieve vacuum-sealed tube whizzing pods across flat landscapes to provide an alternative to the jet engine.
You’re hurtling through space and time at 670 mph, destination San Francisco. An hour ago, you were on your farm in Oregon, meeting with your team on Zoom. There’s something wrong in the data center and they need you to troubleshoot in person, so you ...