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Smath74
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Or billionaire tech porn?

There are not many details about it yet, but he touts it as "the fifth major tent pole for modern transportation, placing it on a pedestal beside planes, trains, boats and automobiles."

He has described it as a “cross between a Concorde, a railgun and an air hockey table”

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/07/15/musk-will-publish-designs-for-hyperloop-a-transport-system-faster-than-the-bullet-train-on-aug-12/

http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-has-plans-for-faster-transportation-called-the-hyperloop-2013-5

7/23/2013 2:13:41 PM

TreeTwista10
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Should be cool, until the battery dies and it becomes a brick

7/23/2013 2:24:42 PM

darkone
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Is this the mag-lev trains in a vacuum idea? If so, it sounds like a neat idea, but stupidly expensive to build large scale.

7/23/2013 2:34:18 PM

dtownral
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No bathrooms in the cars

7/23/2013 4:35:06 PM

puck_it
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I think I heard the air was pressurized... Combo of air gun and maglev or something. But the air hockey mention makes me wonder if that's wrong.

7/23/2013 6:54:57 PM

Igor
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Combo of a maglev and a rail gun.. Vacuum just to reduce friction, not as as a power source.

7/23/2013 11:57:52 PM

BigMan157
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reminds me of http://www.damninteresting.com/the-remarkable-pneumatic-people-mover/

7/24/2013 9:03:32 AM

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7/24/2013 9:39:37 AM

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