It even helped the company land several non-transportation contracts, such as an 8,000 square foot climbing gym. “The Hyperloop is quite a badge of honor for us,” Wright said. Since then, it has landed several high profile gigs, including building a 3D printing lab for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and work on various launch facilities at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Back when his company, San Luis Obispo, California-based Precision Construction Services, took the work, it was a small firm with just a handful of accomplishments. Still, Wright said, the short-lived test project remains a highlight of his career. and SpaceX representatives didn’t respond to requests for comment. Instead, at its transit system in Las Vegas, Teslas drive conference-goers through dedicated subterranean roads at a ho-hum pace.īoring Co. Musk did end up founding a tunnel-based company called Boring Co., but it falls short of levitation and jet-like speeds. While Musk still says he wants to build a Hyperloop, the project has been indefinitely shelved. office in Hawthorne, California - is symbolic of a larger retreat. The demise of the test tunnel - a roughly mile-long white cylinder running along Jack Northrop Avenue near the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Earlier this year, Wright got a text with an update on the tunnel: It was slated to be torn down. The initiative was envisioned as a test run for a futuristic transportation system involving levitating pods hurtling through tubes at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour. Erik Wright was thrilled when he got the news in 2016 that his business had been selected to help with an ambitious technology project: building the prototype tunnel for Elon Musk’s Hyperloop.
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