Transportation is on the edge of its most dramatic transformation since the invention of the automobile. Two technologies - - have moved out of science fiction and into engineering labs, regulatory ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Civic and business leaders in Cupertino are trying to a high-tech solution to traffic congestion. Several ideas are being discussed, including magnetic levitation vehicles, ...

Elon Musk is very much an ideas man. He regularly comes out with elaborate solutions to the world's problems. His musings have included robotaxis, nuking the Martians, and brain chips capable of ...

The Hyperloop — the high-speed transportation concept Elon Musk has promoted heavily — is edging closer to becoming a reality. Russia plans to develop a Hyperloop network for freight transportation, ...

For the past decade, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has been pushing forward on a near-frictionless high-speed capsule system it ultimately hopes will revolutionize both passenger and freight ...

Hyperloop meets demand for faster and more sustainable travel. Credit: Volodimir Zozulinskyi / Shutterstock. With high speeds potentially reaching up to 700mph on the ground, Hyperloop technology will ...

A full-scale Virgin Hyperloop cargo pod and a cutaway passenger pod as part of Dubai’s DP World’s FLOW pavilion at Expo 2020. Credit: Virgin Hyperloop via REUTERS The fundamental problem is the lack ...

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.

ROCHESTER — While critics describe a proposed hyperloop link between Rochester and Twin Cities as a pipe dream, the project manager sees it as an opportunity for Minnesota to take the lead in a new ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — While critics describe a proposed 85-mile hyperloop link between Rochester and Twin Cities as a pipe dream, the project manager sees it as an opportunity for Minnesota to take the ...

The world and Elon Musk were both very different when the latter released a whitepaper for "Hyperloop" transit in 2013. Musk didn't care to build a Hyperloop himself, but multiple startups have tried.

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