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Aspiring to become the future of travel, Virgin Hyperloop boarded its first human passengers this week for a test of its lightning-fast floating train. Virgin Hyperloop Nevada Test Track The ...
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 ...
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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 tech startup’s ambitions suffered from internal strife, regulatory hurdles and more. Bloomberg reporter Sarah McBride covered the twists and turns on its route to failure. While Marketplace’s Lily ...
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 ...
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 ...
Virgin Hyperloop gave the first ride on its test track Sunday in Las Vegas, but it will be years before the public can potentially take a high-speed ride on a hyperloop. A hyperloop is an unproven ...
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%; ...