Elon Musk: Boring Company commits to 600mph Hyperloop and tube network

Tesla head plans short and long distance tunnels including Hyperloop from New York to Washington, but it's unclear whether plans have government approval

Elon Musk's Boring Company has recommitted to building a network of high-speed transport tunnels, including a Hyperloop vacuum-tube supersonic transport system between New York and Washington DC, which it claims will whisk people from A to B at 600mph in a vacuum tube.

Having originally spawned the idea, releasing plans for the cross between a "Concorde and a railgun and an air hockey table" in a 57-page document free for others to verify and build on, Musk announced his intentions in July saying he had verbal approval from the government to build a New York to DC Hyperloop.