5 mile Hyperloop prototype currently slated for construction in 2016

08/20/2015 - 21:29

ALEX DAVIES


Hyperloop Transportation Technologies announced today that it has signed agreements to work with Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum and global engineering design firm Aecom, validation that it's a serious project.

THE HYPERLOOP SOUNDS like science fiction, Elon Musk’s pipe dream: leapfrog high speed rail and go right to packing us into capsules that fling us across the country in hours using what are, essentially, pneumatic tubes. It sounds crazy, when you think about it.

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