Getting from place to place has always been a problem, and problems tend to inspire innovation. Cars, trains, planes, and even the humble boat exist because someone needed a better way of getting ...

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, ...

It has been a transportation dream for more than 150 years: In the 1870s, a test system used a pneumatic vacuum tube to propel people under Manhattan from Warren Street to Murray Street. By the 2010s, ...

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 ...

Elon Musk’s tunnel startup The Boring Company plans to begin “full-scale” testing of hyperloop, a still theoretical transportation system that sends passengers in autonomous electric pods through a ...

We have no idea what we’re doing,” declared Elon Musk, standing beside a yawning “test trench” in Southern California in 2017. A crowd of engineering students and tech reporters hooted and hollered, ...

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.

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 ...

Though some efforts continue, the once-promising technology has run up against significant challenges — most notably creating an entirely new transit infrastructure. By Eric A. Taub This article is ...

The reality is we don’t really hear all that much about the evolution of hyperloops. The companies are like underground moles, sneakily operating in stealth mode on all matters of engineering and ...