News reports surfaced on Thursday that the prototype tunnel, which sat above ground in Hawthorne, Calif., has been converted into a parking lot for employees. The tunnel ran alongside Jack Northrop Avenue near SpaceX’s headquarters. SpaceX and The Boring Co. are both helmed by Elon Musk, who envisioned the Hyperloop one day eliminating “soul-destroying traffic.”
The idea was that the Hyperloop tunnels would be built underneath cities, and passengers would zip along them at hundreds of miles an hour. The few that have been built so far, though, only work with Tesla vehicles, which obviously don’t travel at such high speeds.
