MIT Team Wins SpaceX Hyperloop Design Contest

Elon Musk's dream of creating a superfast new transportation system got a step closer to reality over the weekend. On Saturday (Jan. 30), a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) won the first stage of the SpaceX Hyperloop design competition, which was held at Texas A&M University in College Station. The MIT grad students beat out more than 100 other teams with their design for a passenger-carrying Hyperloop "pod," and will now start building a small-scale prototype to tes