MIT students have won to design tech pioneer Elon Musk's so-called Hyperloop transport system, which see people travel at around 700mph in a 12-foot diameter tube.
The design concept submitted by the young engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology beat enterprise projects put forward by 1,000 competitors from 100 universities across the US.
Passengers would be transported in aluminium pods, each holding 20 to 30 people, moving over air bearings - similar to how a disc moves on an air hockey table.
Mr Musk says this would allow people to move at supersonic speeds with low friction by accelerating them through a travelling electromagnetic pulse.
As the pod nears it destination, it would be slowed by the same electromagnets and the kinetic energy absorbed back into the system.
Elon Musk has called the system a cross between a "Concorde, a rail gun and an air hockey table" (Pic: Elon Musk)
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