Commentary: The Boring Company founder says the government gave its blessing for an East Coast Hyperloop. He just somehow failed to get it in writing. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the middle of last year, Elon Musk announced that he had “verbal government approval” to build a Washington DC to New York City ...

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday that he has received verbal approval from the “government” to build a “Hyperloop” connecting New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Musk ...