Elon Musk's Plans for a Super-Fast Hyperloop Train

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Elon Musk's proposed hyperloop, a super-fast train moving at 600 miles per hour, is looking a lot more solid with release of a 76-page report on how to make that idea a reality. The tubes, rather like a scaled-up versions of the pneumatic tubes used to send messages, back in the 1950s or a safer version of the tubes people use to get around in the cartoon Futurama. The hyperloop would send people in pods using a combination of low air pressure and magnets to speed up the capsules and slow them down quickly at their destination.

"The Hyperloop would not only have the potential revolutionize transportation,, it solves a major problem: over populated cities and highways," the report states. "The ramifications of partially resolving that problem is staggering."

The paper focuses specifically on an approximately 400 mile loop between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The example cities would take about 30 minutes to travel between on the hyperloop, compared to most of a day's drive. Along with that example, the report lists a bunch of other cities , including Washington D.C., as possible homes for hyperloop stations.

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