Company building Elon Musk’s 740mph train just filed for a building permit in California

[abu afak]

I hope this happens.
It would really be Revolutionary. Especially within TWO years.

The company building Elon Musk's 740mph train just filed for a building permit in California

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A computer generated image of Hyperloop in San Francisco.

The company developing Elon Musk's Hyperloop idea claims passengers could be travelling at close to the speed of sound within the next two years, having just filed for a building permit in California.

The Hyperloop concept involves firing a train full of people through a low-pressure tube at speeds of up to 740 mph. It has been described by Musk as a mix between Concorde, a rail gun, and an air hockey table. It could take you from Los Angeles to San Francisco in under 30 minutes.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, the company taking the lead on turning Hyperloop into a reality, told CNBC that it has filed for a construction permit to build a five mile track in Quay Valley, California.

"We are announcing the filing of the first building permit to Kings County to the building of the first full-scale hyperloop, not a test track," Bibop Gresta, the COO of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, said during an interview at Davos on Thursday.

Construction is set to begin in the second quarter of 2016 and Hyperloop could open in 2018 to the public.

"In 36 months we will have the first passenger in the first full-scale hyperloop," said Gresta.
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[Indeependent]

Musk is obviously an IDIOT!
CALIFORNIA!?
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good for him!

 

[Shrimpbox]

Concorde heh. What happened to that plane. Will there be any cost benefit analysis or just massive subsidies cause it's such a swell idea.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

A train. Going nowhere.

Wanna impress me? Bring out the Skip-Jets.

 

[ScienceRocks]

A train. Going nowhere.

Wanna impress me? Bring out the Skip-Jets.

Nothing ever goes anywhere with you. Your ideal world would look like Somalia. What a sick joke!

One paper I read is this could possible go twice as fast as that 740 mph shown here...I don't like heights so this would be a way for people like me to go from one side of the country to the next.

 

[ScienceRocks]

I think this would be a awesome idea This is a sign of early 20th century America!

Expect the loserterians to bitch.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

A train. Going nowhere.

Wanna impress me? Bring out the Skip-Jets.

Nothing ever goes anywhere with you.

Au contraire. Note the comment on Skip-Jets.

 

[SixFoot]

Trains are gay. Where the fuck is my hoverboard??