Elon Musk has claimed a breakthrough in his efforts to build a 220-mile tube that would fire passengers between NY and Washington at supersonic speeds.
An alternate version of the Hyperloop has been brought upon by The Boring Company which aims to develop a series of interconnected underground hyper loops to ease congested traffic above ground.
Musk admitted that there is still “work to be done” but would not disclose where the approval came from, although Bloomberg has reported that it came from inside the White House. The inimitable entrepreneur first revealed his design for the Hyperloop – a travel pod created to speed through an underground pneumatic tube at around 800 miles per hour – in 2013.
Vargas, who has several physics degrees, said he especially enjoyed touring Musk’s newest venture, The Boring Co.
The White House’s Office of American Innovation, on the other hand, has confirmed that it has held “promising conversations” with Musk, but denied it had given approval, according to the Washington Post.
Mike Dunn, a spokesman for the city of Philadelphia, said Musk also has not contacted officials there.
Potentially up to 760 miles per hour, in fact.
So far, The Boring Company has spawned many puns, but not much progress in terms of reaching Musk’s goal in L.A. The company has just one tunnel-digging machine, which Musk said was purchased “second hand”, and so far it’s only dug a small distance beneath SpaceX-owned property in Hawthorne, California.
He says the hyperloop would be more efficient and faster than current high-speed trains.
Musk said in a later tweet that supporters should lobby government officials.
He mentioned an East Coast hyperloop at that conference, saying “If you were to do something like a DC-to-New York hyperloop, I think you’d probably want to go underground the entire way because it’s a high-density area”. When it comes time to add people, Musk says they’ll have to be fearless.
Recenly, Elon Musk was asked about the Los Angeles to San Francisco project and the answer was: that it “would be great“… but why end there?
Musk says he’d like to ride one of his smaller Falcon rockets to the International Space Station in three or four years.