Elon Musk has a well earned reputation for being a bold innovator, even over the top at times, but arguably his most ambitious plan to date has been Hyperloop. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Hyperloop is a theoretical rapid transit system that would be able to transport people at speeds that neither trains nor airplanes can match. While it was all theoretical at first, now it appears as though Musk is actually going to test out the idea, possibly in Texas.
Elon Musk is a busy man: Tesla recently unveiled the all-wheel-drive Model S with auto pilot, SpaceX just crash-landed its Falcon 9 rocket, and the entrepreneur this week announced more plans for a trip to Mars. So it’s not surprising that Musk’s plans for a $6 billion Hyperloop providing high-speed travel between U.S. cities has been put on the backburner. Until Thursday, that is, when the businessman tweeted about a Hyperloop test track “for companies and student teams to test out their pods.” The course will likely be developed somewhere in Texas. “Also thinking of having an annual student Hyperloop pod racer competition, like Formula SAE,” Musk wrote. The Hyperloop made headlines in August, when Musk described a system whereby passengers would be transported at top speeds via tubes constructed above or below the ground.
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