Elon Musk’s SpaceX has dismantled the Hyperloop tunnel prototype in California and constructed a parking lot in its place.
According to Bloomberg, the approximately one-mile-long white steel tunnel, close to the SpaceX headquarters in California, has been taken down and will be replaced with a parking spot for employees.
The project was intended to serve as a test run for a modern transport network that would use levitating pods traveling through tubes at high speeds.
Musk’s Hyperloop system was intended to carry passengers via low-pressure tubes in pods at top speeds of 760 mph.
The Boring Company, Musk’s civil engineering firm, was in charge of the project, although not much progress was made over the years.
Transportation experts disputed the white paper’s cost projections, with some estimating that a realized hyperloop would cost several billion dollars more than expected.