A group of American student engineers have won a competition to transform SpaceX and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk's idea into a design for a Hyperloop to move pods of people at high speed.<br />Massachusetts Institute of Technology, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was named the winner after a competition among more than 1,000 college students at Texas A&M University in College Station.<br />The Hyperloop is a high-speed ground transport concept proposed by Tesla founder Musk to transport "pods" of 20 to 30 people through a 12-foot diameter tube at speeds of roughly 700 mph.<br />The top teams will build their pods and test them at the world's first Hyperloop Test Track, being built adjacent to SpaceX's Hawthorne, California, headquarters.
