Proposed by billionaire inventor Elon Musk, the Hyperloop is designed to
get you from New York to China in two hours. And now a team of top
engineers plans to take it from pipe dream to reality.
Elon Musk’s Hyperloop - a train that will transport people around America at 1,200 km/h (800 mph) - might not be so far-fetched after all, thanks to a group of engineers that are crowd-funding and crowd-sourcing it into reality.
Inspired by how, a hundred years ago in New York, a cat was sent through the mail via pneumatic tubes, Musk - the billionaire CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX - proposed the Hyperloop late last year, but admitted that he didn’t actually have the time to build it. But California-based startup, JumpStartFund, has announced that it's gathered together a crack team of 100 engineers that have been given permisson by Musk to take the plans and run with them. And, as Alex Davies reports at Wired, they’re bringing money and ideas in from all over the place to help them do it.
Elon Musk’s Hyperloop - a train that will transport people around America at 1,200 km/h (800 mph) - might not be so far-fetched after all, thanks to a group of engineers that are crowd-funding and crowd-sourcing it into reality.
Inspired by how, a hundred years ago in New York, a cat was sent through the mail via pneumatic tubes, Musk - the billionaire CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX - proposed the Hyperloop late last year, but admitted that he didn’t actually have the time to build it. But California-based startup, JumpStartFund, has announced that it's gathered together a crack team of 100 engineers that have been given permisson by Musk to take the plans and run with them. And, as Alex Davies reports at Wired, they’re bringing money and ideas in from all over the place to help them do it.
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