Not to mention that Elon Musk, a serial entrepreneur who co-founded PayPal and electric car company Tesla Motors, afraid to think big.Mr. Musk on Monday back to the time of the late 1990s-tech bubble - when neither idea seemed too big or too expensive - to show plans for a project that seems the stuff of science fiction.
The hypothetical project called Hyperloop, a high-speed train carrying people to San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes. That's a speed of almost 800 kilometers per hour.
The first unanswered question among many ambitious vision of Mr. Musk is who exactly would build this transport system 400 miles. Mr. Musk suggested someone should do. But if no one takes the lead, they could. Or not.
Beyond that, the details of who would pay for Hyperloop, how it would be built and how long would also clear. But Mr. Musk theorized that if he devoted all his energy, which could have a prototype made in one or two years. It is estimated that the project would cost about $ 6 million and tickets cost $ 20 per trip.
"It does not seem plausible to me," said Richard White, a professor of American history at Stanford and author of "Railroaded:.'s Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America" "I am suspicious about everything, especially cost."
Mr. White added: "How are you going to build this thing for $ 6 billion? Can not even build the Bay Bridge that amount of money." Hopefully unfinished reforms of Bay Bridge connecting San Francisco and Oakland to cost $ 6.3 billion.
So no bags yet. In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek on Monday, Mr. Musk said he regretted Hyperloop mention last year, saying he did not have time to work on the project and instead have to run SpaceX and Tesla Motors, with the other two companies .
Mr. Musk Hyperloop first mentioned last summer and further detailed in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek. In July, announced on Twitter that he would reveal the designs for high-speed rail in the August 12 As promised, a 57 pages "alpha design" plan was published online Monday explaining how it would work like a train.
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