Vacuum Tube Transportation Company Opens Its First Factory

Ground transportation that's much faster than modern planes made another major step forward with the announcement that U.S. company Hyperloop One opened its first factory this week outside Las Vegas. Its 170 engineers, technicians and highly skilled workers are expected to build a working prototype of a superfast vacuum tube transportation device by 2017. The name Hyperloop was introduced in 2012 by the U.S.-based South African billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla...

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