The Hyperloop Transport

A billionaire in California wants to build the Hyperloop Transport, a solar-powered network of crash-proof capsules that would whisk people from San Francisco to Los Angeles in half an hour. How can he say crash-proof?? What if something happened to the tubes and one gets dented?? SLAM and then a tube is stuck...how do they get it unstuck or out of the tube then? It just seems to good to be true!

Elon Musk is the owner of Tesla Motors and the money behind the idea.

The Hyperloop, which Musk previously described as a cross between a Concorde, rail gun and air-hockey table, would cost an estimated $6 billion to build and construction would take 7 to 10 years. Eventually, according to the plan, it would jettison more than 7 million people a year along one of the U.S. West Coast's busiest traffic corridors.

As many as 28 passengers could ride in each pod and the system could even transport vehicles, according to the 57-page design plan.

Musk, who in the past has hinted at the hopes of building such a system, proposed the Hyperloop as an alternative to a $68 billion high-speed rail project that's a major priority of California Governor Jerry Brown. It would be safer, faster, less expensive and more convenient, Musk said in the blog post. More on the story can be read here!