Elon Musk is the founder of Tesla Motors, SpaceX and PayPal, and now he's revolutionizing public transport. He recently unveiled his idea for an ultra fast, city to city transport system that could get you from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just 35 mins. Hyperloop is described as an elevated steel tube containing aluminium capsule that would travel at speeds over 1,200 kmph(760 mph), ferrying cars as well as people and would all be powered by solar energy.
The major drawback is it's price tag. Musk estimates that Hyperloop would cost $70 billion just to get started. The final expenditure could be a mind-boggling $100 billion. But hyperloop also has its critics. Many complain that the system is too expensive, too impractical, even too slow.
Nevertheless the plan is rolling ahead. A start up named Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. has published a timeline projecting the completion of a Hyperloop prototype in the first quarter of 2015. Only time will tell if this is actually feasible, but who knows? The future could be here sooner than we think.
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