In 2013, Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla, proposed a new way to get around. He told PandoDaily, "We've got planes, trains, automobiles and boats for getting around earth. But what if there was ...

A team from MIT won the best overall design award in the first round of the Hyperloop pod design contest, held last weekend at Texas A&M University. About 120 teams participated in the event. MIT ...

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 ...

It’s been a big week for hyperloops. On Friday, a team of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology unveiled the first public prototype hyperloop pod. The reveal came just two days after ...

A team of MIT student designers is heading to California with a concept pod, a vision for the future of transportation, and a singular intention: to win the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. This ...

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It seems like only yesterday that the Hyperloop system was just a gleam in the eye of Elon Musk. Touted as a manner of transportation that could connect cities up to a distance of around 900 miles ...

The first public demonstration of “the hyperloop,” a new propulsion system for high-speed transit, occurred on May 11 in the desert north of Las Vegas. Days later, a team of researchers unveiled a ...

In addition to testing reusable rockets, SpaceX is also coming up with innovative ideas that could affect our everyday lives here on the ground. The company recently held a competition where teams ...

Elon Musk's wild Hyperloop has captivated engineers ever since he almost casually mentioned the idea three years ago. After all, who wouldn't want to contribute to a potentially revolutionary ...

SpaceX Hyperloop Design Weekend closed out today with some clear winners. The massive race to create a pod that will zoom you from point A to point B through a tube in mere minutes instead of hours ...

"Hyperloop is not eventually. Hyperloop is now," says the MIT Hyperloop Team, which just won a competition to design a (subway) car for the Tesla CEO. Elon Musk wants to build a Hyperloop. Step 1: ...