Musk was in Austin on Thursday, speaking at the Capitol to reporters and some of the devoted fans who follow the zillionaire inventor’s every move, about his future plans. Primarily, those seem focused on lobbying the legislature to change laws that restrict him from selling his Tesla Motors vehicles directly to the public in Texas. Right now, if you visit a Tesla showroom here, staff is restricted from answering certain questions, like pricing. But you can order a car online from a computer in the building or make plans to go pick your new Tesla up in California and drive it back through the desert. But yesterday, Musk brought up his most ambitious invention, the hyperloop: a transportation system for humans using a pneumatic tube like the ones that suck up your checks at the bank drive-thru. It would allow for speeds more than twice as fast as the fastest trains, and 200mph faster than an airplane. In 2012, he had offered the plans to it for free, without a patent, to anyone who wanted it, but had expressed no intention to actually build the thing himself—until Thursday, when he suggested that a 5-mile test loop, traveling at speeds of up to 760 mph, might be built right here in Texas.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 22:33:02 +0000
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