Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HyperloopTT) has unveiled the first of its full-scale capsules that it hopes will one day be used to transport passengers at 750 miles per hour, reports Bloomberg. The California-based company is one of several Hyperloop contenders that have sprung up to deliver on Elon Musk's 2013 transportation vision. The company will now transport the capsule to Toulouse in France, where it has begun construction of its test track, for further assembly and optimization. HyperloopTT says it hopes it'll be "passenger ready" by 2019.

HyperloopTT's 'Quintero One' pod is around 105 feet long and weighs 5 tons. It's cons …

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After over a year of incremental progress and underwhelming, low-speed tests, the hyperloop is finally starting to show us what it can do. On July 29th, Hyperloop One's prototype pod accelerated down the length of its 500-meter-long test tube in the Nevada desert, reaching a top speed of 192 mph before gliding to a stop. The company claims it was the fastest hyperloop test yet, which isn't a tough sell considering Hyperloop One is the only company in the world that we know of with a full-scale hyperloop.

The nearly airless tube was depressurized down to the equival …

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There are two hyperloop startups based in Los Angeles: one is extremely eager to publicize its progress on this futuristic, insanely fast transportation system, the other… not so much. Until now.

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), the more coquettish of the two startups, finally released a handful of images and a video to prove that it is building what it says is the world's first full-scale, passenger-ready hyperloop, capable of speeds of up to 760 mph. Unfortunately, the pictures raise more questions than they answer.

Let's see what we've got:

Something that appears to be the inside of a hyperloop tube.

A mechanical arm spray …

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Hyperloop still feels a little more like science fiction than an actual project, but as new pictures from superfast transportation company Hyperloop One show, the technology is slowly making its way into the real world. The new images give an insight into how construction is progressing on Hyperloop One's very own hyperloop in the Nevada desert, showing suspended track that could one day carry (possibly screaming) passengers at ridiculous speeds across the United States.

The test track - known as DevLoop - is 500 meters long and 3.3 meters in diameter, giving enough space for Hyperloop One to conduct public trials of its technology in the f …

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Hyperloop One, the well-funded, slightly dysfunctional, futuristic transportation startup announced that it has settled a lawsuit brought by four former employees, including co-founder and chief technology officer Brogan BamBrogan, for an undisclosed sum of money.

In an email sent to employees earlier Friday, Hyperloop One CEO Rob Lloyd said he was "pleased" to announce the settlement of the suit, which stunned many when it dropped weeks after the company's first public test. "Lawsuits can be distracting for companies; they often halt momentum until they can be resolved," Lloyd said in his memo to staff. "That didn't happen here."

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Hyperloop One - the well-funded, slightly dysfunctional, futuristic transportation startup - said Tuesday that it would study the possibility of building the world's first passenger-ready hyperloop in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

But more than that, the company also released a slickly produced video to give us a glimpse at what riding in a hyperloop would be like from the passenger perspective. And the biggest shock is that the designers envision their Dubai hyperloop to be both ultrafast transportation system and a smartphone-based, on-demand service, à la Uber.

After making a reservation on your phone, an autonomously driven, box- …

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