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In 2013, Elon Musk had an idea. He would propel passengers in a pod through an evacuated tube at nearly the speed of sound, hurtling them from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes. It's a lot quicker than the 2 hours and 40 minutes of the rival technology, a proposed high-speed train.
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