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Will the Elon Musk Hyperloop Tube Become the Transit of the Future?
San Francisco to Los Angeles in 35 minutes for just $20. It sounds amazing, but is it too good to be true?
Not to Elon Musk it isn’t. The billionaire business magnate and SpaceX founder has unveiled his vision of the Hyperloop. The high-speed transport system would whiz passengers through hollow tubes at the speed of sound.
In a 57-page PDF file about the Hyperloop, Musk said that 12 engineers from SpaceX and Tesla had worked on the concept during the past 12 months as a “background task”.
In the report, Musk admits he devised the Hyperloop because of frustration of the inadequacies of California’s $8 billion high-speed rail project.
“When the California ‘high speed’ rail was approved, I was quite disappointed, as I know many others were,” Musk wrote in his PDF report. “How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL – doing incredible things like indexing all the world’s knowledge and putting rovers on Mars – would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest Read more…
Source: http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2013/08/will-the-elon-musk-hyperloop-tube-become-the-transit-of-the-future/
