Students from MIT have become the perhaps unsurprising first winners of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop competition, launched to create the concepts that might bring his new super-fast transportation pod to the world. Although he’s pretty busy launching rockets right now, Musk turned up at Texas A&M University to deliver the good news and hosted a 30-minute Q&A with more than 100 teams who’d signed up for the competition. The MIT team, along with 21 others, will get the opportunity to test their designs at Musk’s own one-mile test track this summer, which is being built opposite SpaceX’s California HQ. Musk first announced plans to build…
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