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How Elon Musk’s sci-fi hyperloop failed

We have no idea what we’re doing,” declared Elon Musk, standing beside a yawning “test trench” in Southern California in 2017 ...
A YouTube video was published that shows a test run of Elon Musk’s “Hyperloop” high-speed rail system. The Hyperloop was proposed by Musk, the Tesla Motors co-founder, to transport “pods” of people ...
Hyperloop One — a high-speed train startup endorsed by Elon Musk that nevertheless got sidetracked with project delays and bizarre sex-harassment claims against some of its executives and backers — ...
The tech startup’s ambitions suffered from internal strife, regulatory hurdles and more. Bloomberg reporter Sarah McBride covered the twists and turns on its route to failure. While Marketplace’s Lily ...
Virgin Hyperloop, a transportation company working on high-speed trains, released a video showing what the passenger experience would be like on the estimated 45-minute trip between San Francisco and ...
While researchers have encountered major headwinds in turning the Hyperloop into a reality, the European Hyperloop Center is still hoping to open the first functional tube by the end of the decade.