LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Imagine strapping into a car-sized capsule and hurtling through a tube at more than 700 mph -- not for the thrill of it, but to get where you need to go. On Monday, billionaire ...

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 ...

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 ...

Musk in a 2013 white paper explained the theoretical Hyperloop concept as a transportation system capable of moving passengers in electric pods at high speeds. The idea is to make traveling between ...

Elon Musk's ambitious Hyperloop transportation concept is now up at JumpStartFund, a collaborative startup platform that hopes to refine the idea and get it paid for. Nick Statt was a staff reporter ...

At this year's digital SXSW conference, Virgin Hyperloop held a panel to discuss it's plans for the next-gen transport system. For those who haven't been keeping up, the hyperloop idea is to use ...

The CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors published his research plan earlier today. Aug. 12, 2013— -- "Pulled all nighter working on Hyperloop (as did others). Hopefully, not too many mistakes." That ...

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A concept from the renowned billionaire, Elon Musk, is turning into reality, but China picking up on this project and looking to develop a new train system to connect two cities via a project known as ...

Virgin Hyperloop came to be in June of 2014, promising to revolutionize transit with its concept of pressurized, high-speed pod travel. Now, over $400 million dollars in funding later, the company has ...

The infamous hyperloop concept was applauded by many and contested by some. The idea of traveling with zero emissions and zero noise, at a mind-blowing speed of 670 mph (1,078 kph), is certainly ...

Imagine being able to travel from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 35 minutes or from Paris to Amsterdam in 30? Now imagine being able to do this without having to get into a plane. Well, that is ...