Musk Announced New York To D.C. Hyperloop Given The Go-Ahead

In case there was any doubt that Elon Musk can do the impossible, the Tesla boss recently announced via Twitter that he received a verbal green light regarding plans to create a Hyperloop connection from New York to Washington D.C. The project will involve The Boring Company drilling underground tunnels, where supersonic pods will potentially be zipping back and forth in the future.

“Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins,” Musk wrote in his Tweet.

Naturally, this caused an immediate buzz among his followers and subsequently, the media. Forbes notes once again how the Tesla boss can generate so much noise by simply using his megaphone of a Twitter account when announcing the news. The publication also points out that this was quite unexpected as well as indicative of a new direction that Musk’s company is taking.

Those closely following the developments involve the Hyperloop concept and The Boring Company will likely know that a successful first test of the transportation initiative was recently achieved and the drilling firm was meant to alleviate traffic in Los Angeles. That is to say, Musk originally wanted to create his tunneling business to accommodate cars.

As for the Hyperloop, the tech renegade also originally planned for the transport system to be constructed above ground and to work as a supersonic railway. So far, progress in these fields have been going smoothly, but the direction is simply diverging.

Now, some might say that Musk is jumping the gun here since there have been no dotted lines signed yet. When CNET reached out to the US Department of Transportation to get a comment on the development, the publication was directed to a White House spokesperson who did not have anything concrete to say.

"We have had promising conversations to date, are committed to transformative infrastructure projects, and believe our greatest solutions have often come from the ingenuity and drive of the private sector," the spokesperson said.