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Now that the Detroit Auto Show is moving into the public showing phase, Tesla founder Elon Musk can focus on another project: the Hyperloop. In a series of tweets, he said he plans to build a five-mile test track in Texas to allow companies and student teams to use for testing.

In fact, the serial entrepreneur tweeted he’d like track to play host to a student competition similar to Formula SAE, where student teams form fictional companies and then design, build and test a Formula One-style race car.

The concept of the hyperloop is akin to what you’d see at bank drive-through lanes: put the container with your deposit into a tube and then a huge blast of compressed air moves it along into the bank.

Musk has described it as a cross between Concorde, a railgun and an air hockey table. Passengers sit in cars that are fired down the tube which had had most of its air removed. A system of magnets would accelerate and brake the capsules, and also keep them from touching the sides of the tube.



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