Hyper Chariot — Technology’s version of #FakeNews
Elon Musk rekindled the dream of travel in a tube. It’s not a new idea. Engineers in New York experimented with a pneumatic subway in 1867. A hundred years later, the Federal Railway Administration experimented with a train that traveled on an air cushion. In 2013, Musk, reputation strong with engineering successes at SpaceX and Tesla Motors, proposed a 700 mph train-in-a-tube that could be built at a tenth of the cost of the California High Speed Rail system. He…