Five years ago, billionaire Elon Musk open-sourced his plan for a supersonic train-like thing. Today it's still a work in progress. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his ...

The man of many projects wants to speed his transport concept up to half-Mach then hit the brakes. The result should be one heck of a high-speed stress test. Eric Mack Contributing Editor Eric Mack ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. On Sunday, November 8, two people sat in a pod in a tube in Nevada ...

The company behind an experimental mode of travel announced a new speed milestone at its test track near North Las Vegas. Virgin Hyperloop One hit about 240 mph with a travel circuit that magnetically ...

Virgin Hyperloop One has released a prototype for a levitating pod that is designed to zoom at speeds as high as 760 mph (1,200 km/h) through a Hyperloop connecting Dubai to Abu Dhabi, according to ...

Results from a feasibility study on a new form of high-speed transportation between Chicago, Cleveland and Pittsburgh were released by the public-private partnership funding the project on Monday, Dec ...

Imagine traveling from New York to Los Angeles in less than an hour or from London to Paris in 15 minutes. Sounds impossible, right? Well, not for China’s biggest missile manufacturer, which claims to ...