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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, ...
The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors published his research plan earlier today. Aug. 12, 2013— -- "Pulled all nighter working on Hyperloop (as did others). Hopefully, not too many mistakes." That ...
A YouTube video was published that shows a test run of Elon Musk’s “Hyperloop” high-speed rail system. The Hyperloop was proposed by Musk, the Tesla Motors co-founder, to transport “pods” of people ...
"It's just a fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants project." Experts raise suspicions about Elon Musk's underground tunneling project ...
Imagine stepping into a car-sized capsule in downtown Los Angeles and, 30 minutes later, emerging in San Francisco On Monday, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk unveiled a transportation concept that ...
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In 2013, Elon Musk talked about the Hyperloop. A futuristic transport system built around near-vacuum tubes designed to whisk passengers between cities at speeds of up to 1,000 km/h (621 mph). Though ...
This article is from the archive of our partner . Inside the tubes, the pods would be mounted on thin skis made out of Inconel, a trusted alloy of SpaceX that can withstand high pressure and heat. Air ...
Elon Musk — co-founder of PayPal, creator and CEO of SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ:SCTY), Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA), and SpaceX — rocked the world once again this week, when he announced a plan to build ...
Elon Musk built his reputation on turning improbable bets into working rockets and electric cars, but his tunneling venture ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Imagine strapping into a car-sized capsule and hurtling through a tube at more than 700 mph -- not for the thrill of it, but to get where you need to go. On Monday, billionaire ...