Entrepreneur Elon Musk's Hyperloop transportation system was revealed Monday, CNN reported.
The system is equipped with extremely large tubes, and an air-bearing suspension which is capable of bringing riders 350 miles from Los Angeles, Calif, to San Francisco, Calif in 35 minutes CNN reported.
Musk told CNN he thought of the idea because he felt a more effective system could be created other than the one currently in use in California.
"When the California 'high speed' rail was approved, I was quite disappointed, as I know many others were too," Musk said. "How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory) -- doing incredible things like indexing all the world's knowledge and putting rovers on Mars -- would build a bullet train that is both one of the most expensive per mile and one of the slowest in the world?"
Musk said building a Hyperloop system would cost "under $6 billion," a bargain compared to the "several tens of billion proposed for the track of the California rail project."
"For much longer journeys, such as LA to NY, it would be worth exploring super high speeds and this is probably technically feasible," he wrote, "but, as mentioned above, I believe the economics would probably favor a supersonic plane."
According to CNN, if brought to production, the tube for the system would be above ground and follow the state of California's Interstate 5 highway. Musk does not have intentions to establish the system himself.
Twenty-eight passengers would leave stations in Los Angeles and San Francisco every 30 seconds during hours when it is the busiest. People would be able to get on and off at different stops along the route and a bigger system would be able to transport cars, CNN reported.
