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 ...

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 ...

As the federal government gets set to kick the tires (or tubes) on hyperloop technology, university students in Kingston, Ont., are preparing their own design. A hyperloop, the brainchild of Tesla ...

Getting from place to place has always been a problem, and problems tend to inspire innovation. Cars, trains, planes, and even the humble boat exist because someone needed a better way of getting ...

Not busy enough building rockets, aerospace company SpaceX has launched a hyperloop design competition and said it would build a 1-mile test track next to its Hawthorne headquarters next year. The ...

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) ...

Elon Musk Hints at Hyperloop Design During Hangout During a Google4Entrepreneurs hangout on Aug. 8, Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave a hint as to what the Hyperloop design would look like. (Photo/Video: ...

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 ...

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 ...