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Elon Musk discusses potential hyperloop connecting San Antonio, Austin.
A hyperloop is a mode of public transportation that would place people in pods traveling at speeds exceeding 600 mph, the Boring Company’s website says.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted early Monday morning that “it would be cool” to build a demo hyperloop tunnel between San Antonio and Austin. A hyperloop connecting the two Lone Star State cities could reduce the commute time significantly.
A hyperloop is a mode of public transportation that would place people in pods traveling at speeds exceeding 600 mph, the Boring Company’s website says. With a hyperloop, a 40-mile trip from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Md. would take eight minutes. San Antonio and Austin are about 80 miles apart, meaning a trip that would normally take drivers up to an hour and a half would last about 15 minutes in a hyperloop.
Building a hyperloop has been a goal of Musk’s for years. Musk founded the Boring Company, one of the tech billionaire’s multiple companies based in Texas, in December 2017 with the goal of finding an effective way to build tunnels for high speed transportation. In April 2022, he tweeted that the Boring Co. would be working on a hyperloop “in the coming years.”
While the Boring Company has yet to build a hyperloop, it has been building underground loops in Las Vegas for a couple of years now. After about a year of construction, the company opened its 1.7-mile, three-station Las Vegas Convention Center loop in April 2021. The $47 million reduced a 45-minute walk across the convention center to about a two minute drive using the tunnel, the company said.
The company is also working on a much larger Las Vegas tunnel, a 29-mile loop featuring 51 stops in the Las Vegas area, including the Strip, Harry Reid International Airport, Allegiant Stadium and downtown Las Vegas. A sample 4.9-mile trip from the airport to LVCC could take about five minutes and cost $10. According to the company’s website, the loop will also eventually connect to Los Angeles.
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