Rendering of the winning conceptual design for a Hyperloop pod by a team of MIT students (all images courtesy MIT) In 2013, tech billionaire and “real life Iron Man” Elon Musk first proposed his ...

Scenes from the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Design Competition Weekend, Friday afternoon, Jan. 29, 2016, at Texas A&M University, in College Station, Texas. (Timothy Hurst/The Eagle) ...

Think back to a bygone era of Elon Musk — when he talked less about blue checks on Twitter and more about blue-sky ideas to colonize Mars, reuse rockets, and tackle climate change. One of his ...

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is a new company recruiting those interested in realizing Musk’s dream of a next-generation ground transportation system costing $6 billion, which could ...

Hmm, does it violate the known laws of physics? If not, I don't see the harm in people spending their time/money/effort on realizing a "cool sounding" idea, as you say yourself. And part of that idea ...

I like the pursuit of learning and experimenting. But in my opinion the push for mass transit is ridiculous. Tax payers end up paying for it, which is me. I'd rather someone focus on ways to control ...