Meet the Man Building Elon Musk’s 760MPH Hyperloop: Interview with Dirk Ahlborn

In 2012, Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, released a proposal for a futuristic tube transport system that could go faster than the speed of sound, cutting travel time between Los Angeles and San Francisco to 35 minutes or less. He described it as a “cross between a Concorde, a rail gun, and an air hockey table“ that “can never crash,“ and called it the Hyperloop. But what exactly is the Hyperloop? “Imagine a capsule with 28 people that’s hovering inside a tube at really high speeds of 760 miles per