Train-style carriages full of travelers, flung through the air at over 700 mph in vacuum tubes. Ten years ago, hyperloop looked like it could be the transport of the future. So what happened?

In 2013, Elon Musk published a white paper that teased the idea of zipping from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just 35 minutes through a vacuum-sealed tube -- a system he called hyperloop. The idea ...

In an interview with Gizmodo, the Secretary of Transportation expressed skepticism of the Tesla CEO's still hypothetical high-speed transit system. Reading time 3 minutes U.S. Department of ...

This just in: Elon Musk never intended to actually build his Hyperloop idea in California. He proposed it just to stop the high-speed rail project. That was news to me when Paris Marx, a technology ...

Imagine traveling from New York to Los Angeles in less than an hour or from London to Paris in 15 minutes. Sounds impossible, right? Well, not for China’s biggest missile manufacturer, which claims to ...

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 ...

When Elon Musk first proposed the hyperloop as a transportation alternative, he projected sealed tubes would hurl a pod between San Francisco and Los Angeles in 35 minutes. At the time, Musk’s vision ...

It has been almost a decade since Elon Musk floated the idea of hyperloop, a new mode of transportation that promises to move people and goods at the speed of airplanes while staying on the ground.