What the hell even is a Hyperloop? Let's try and figure out

The Boring Company is throwing out promises that a full scale Hyperloop test will happen this year .

But what the hell even is a Hyperloop? Well, opinion ranges from a stupid pipe dream to the future of transportation.

The idea of a high speed train in a sealed tube dates back to the late 1800s .

The modern Hyperloop works in the opposite way.

There is no currently functional Hyperloop system anywhere in the world that we know of.

Sir Richard Branson and his Virgin group were the most high profile companies trying to produce their own version of the Hyperloop .

By early 2022 , Virgin Hyperloop was announcing that they had fired half of their staff members and given up completely on using the.

Hyperloop to transport people, saying that instead they would just use it to move cargo.

Two months after Virgin announced they were basically throwing in the towel on this whole Hyperloop business, Elon doubled down on his old promise to make it happen.

The Boring Company is working on a prototype Hyperloop that would be the second full scale functional Hyperloop ever created.