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 ...
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Hyperloop was never meant to happen

Back in 2013, the Hyperloop was hailed as the future of travel: capsules speeding through vacuum tubes at over 600 mph, ...
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 ...
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 ...
When the hyperloop first sparked a frenzy in 2013, it was just an Elon Musk Big Idea—very exciting, maybe possible, definitely hard to believe. Now, five years on, a version of the futuristic, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hyperloop One got a little closer to making its ambitious, high-speed transit system a reality last week. The startup successfully tested its full-scale Hyperloop system on its DevLoop test track in ...
A pod rolls down an enclosed test track next to SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif. (SpaceX Photo) Three student teams got through the engineering gauntlet and sent their Hyperloop pods through ...
Elon Musk first described his idea for a futuristic transportation system that would send passenger pods through tubes at speeds of hundreds of miles an hour back in 2013. At the time, the idea of ...
Hyperloops burst onto the scene in 2013. Elon Musk detailed a new type of train service in a low-pressure tube that would reach speeds up to 760 mph. The train would float on a cushion of air and be ...