What will the mass transit of the future look like? Elon Musk, founder of space transport company SpaceX and electric-car company Tesla Motors, thinks he knows — and he calls it the Hyperloop. But ...

Elon Musk's super-fast, $6 billion Hyperloop transportation project may never come to fruition, but one 3D printing company has already made it a not-to-scale reality. Using one type of innovative ...

In the 1960s, humanity was largely confined to planet Earth. In fact, most people were confined to their own home cities—even just communicating with someone on the other side of the globe was a trial ...

It should have been obvious from the start that Elon Musk’s Hyperloop was just a boy’s own fantasy and could never work.

While Elon Musk has long talked about building ultrafast hyperloop transit in the U.S., China may be the first country to actually do it. The proposed hyperloop train would run between Shanghai and ...

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A working hyperloop system may be quite a few years off, but a competition held by Elon Musk’s SpaceX marked part of the genesis of transportation’s future. Simply dubbed the Hyperloop Pod Competition ...

In 2013, Elon Musk had a singular idea to revolutionize intercity transport — and it had nothing to do with Tesla. Instead of self-driving electric vehicles ferrying people to and from the office, he ...

Congested Dubai is looking to the future with a radical new mass transit system able to carry passengers at speeds faster than some airliners. It may seem like science fiction, but the city plans to ...