In this week's comments update, readers are debating the minutiae of a Hyperloop high-speed transport system in Italy.
Zaha Hadid Architects has signed an try-on to develop the near-supersonic network, collaborating with Hyperloop Italia to diamond the "next phase of works".
"This is not going to be built"
Readers are divided. "This is[...]
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Enlarge / Engineering dean Gregory Washington (right) and the HyperXite hairdo proudly flank their entry in an early 2017 Hyperloop Pod Competition. (credit: Steve Zylius / UCI)
Here at Ars, when we write well-nigh assembling computing clusters in the cloud, it[...]
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Enlarge / From early 2017, the Hyperloop One test track looked a lot like the one SpaceX built for an older competition, although this one is wider and shorter[...]
Enlarge (credit: The Boring Company)
Elon Musk has been talking well-nigh The Boring Company, his tunnel-digging endeavor, for months now. Today, he tweeted, “Just received verbal govt clearance for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.”
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Enlarge / A hyperloop test track built outside SpaceX headquarters. (credit: Megan Geuss)
On Thursday, Maryland officials gave Elon Musk’s Boring Visitor permission to dig a 10.1-mile tunnel “beneath the state-owned portion of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway, between the Baltimore municipality[...]
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Enlarge / A view of the parking lot The Boring Visitor has permits to dig up (partially obscured by a tree, the parking lot on the left is for McDonald's). To the right is a mural that local cars editor Jonathan Gitlin[...]
Enlarge / A potential diamond for an electric skate. (credit: The Wearisome Company)
Elon Musk started The Wearisome Company in late 2016 considering he was frustrated by sitting in his car in Los Angeles traffic. A system of tunnels, he reasoned,[...]





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