be traveling up to 760 miles per hour. dirk alborn says it's safer and more efficient than the railroad. >> in railroads, most accidents were all human factors. plus a lot of the derailments are actually happening because something is on the track. we're a closed system. we're completely managed by a computer system. there's no human factor that can create those issues. >> will the hyperloop kill the railroad? >> the hyperloop is going to do to the u.s. what the railroads did in the 1800s. so it will change the way we live. >> the concept of using a high-speed network of vacuum tubes to transport cargo has been around for over a century. but it wasn't until 2013 when inventor elon musk published a paper on the hyperloop that dirk saw how the idea might become a reality for moving people around. >> how could this possibly be safe? >> safety is obviously very important. we have to make sure that we have safety procedures. it's a very straight line.