The Tesla and SpaceX founder also donated $10 million to help fund global artificial intelligence safety research.<\/p>\n
Elon Musk is a busy man: Tesla recently unveiled the all-wheel-drive Model S with auto pilot, SpaceX just crash-landed its Falcon 9 rocket, and the entrepreneur this week announced more plans for a trip to Mars. <\/p>\n
So it's not surprising that Musk's plans for a $6 billion Hyperloop providing high-speed travel between U.S. cities has been put on the backburner. <\/p>\n
Until Thursday, that is, when the businessman tweeted about a Hyperloop test track \"for companies and student teams to test out their pods.\" The course will likely be developed somewhere in Texas. <\/p>\n
\"Also thinking of having an annual student Hyperloop pod racer competition, like Formula SAE,\" Musk wrote. <\/p>\n
The Hyperloop made headlines in August, when Musk described a system whereby passengers would be transported at top speeds via tubes constructed above or below the ground. <\/p>\n
Ideally, this Hyperloop could move 840 passengers per hour and connect cities fewer than 900 miles apartSan Francisco to Los Angeles, perhaps; or loops between Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. It would probably cost about $1.35 million per passenger capsule, or $6 billion in total, Musk said last year. <\/p>\n
For more check out some early Hyperloop designs in the slideshow above, and see The Hyperloop: Another Great Transportation Failure? <\/p>\n
While Hyperloop details are worked out, meanwhile, Musk is turning his attention to artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n
The founder of Tesla and SpaceX has donated $10 million to the Future of Life Institute to run a global AI research program, backed by a long list of leading AI analysts, including the head of Facebook's AI Laboratory, Google researchers, and IBM Watson Group employees. <\/p>\n
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