Student engineers have won a competition to transform SpaceX and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk's idea into a design for a Hyperloop to move pods of people at high speed.
The Boston-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology was named the winner on Saturday after a competition among more than a thousand college students at Texas A&M university in College Station.
The Hyperloop is a high-speed ground transport concept proposed by Musk to transport "pods" of 20-to-30 people through a 3.66 metre diameter tube at speeds of roughly 1126km/h.
More than 100 university teams presented design concepts to a panel of judges in an event that began on Friday.
The top teams will build their pods and test them at the world's first Hyperloop Test Track, being built adjacent to SpaceX's Hawthorne, California, headquarters.
