Work will start on a $6bn Hyperloop test track in ‘weeks’

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by Sindy Cator on October 23, 2015 at 9:27 am

When Elon Musk presented the world with his vision of how passengers could be catapulted at nearly 800MPH inside a metal tube, a lot of people thought it was pie in the sky. They were wrong, though. In the coming weeks, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies says it will start work on building a five-mile test track that will ultimately transport 10 million people throughout its trial phase. Construction of the track is expected to take around two and half years, though, so it’s going to be a long process. Reassuringly, it won’t initially be tested at full speed with passengers on board…