Hyperloop Rapid Transit System Construction to Start in 2016

California-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies is poised to begin laying the groundwork for the Hyperloop, a futuristic steel tube transportation system that would shuttle passengers at speeds of 1,200 kilometers per hour (almost 750 mph). “So at the beginning of 2016, we will break ground on Quay Valley," a proposed renewable-energy-fueled city in King's County, California, said Dirk Ahlborn, the company's CEO. "It’s an 8-kilometer track." A pioneering...

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