The Boring Company, owned by well-known entrepreneur Elon Musk, is constructing an underground people-moving system at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC). It is somewhat akin to a subway, only the transport mode is an autonomous electric vehicle (AEV) as opposed to a railcar. Known as ...
Musk has described a system in which vehicles or people pods are moved on electrically powered platforms called skates at speeds up to 155 mph (250 kph). Musk wants to build a tunnel across western Los Angeles and another between a Metro subway line and Dodger Stadium.Trending...
The tycoon’s latest startup wants to tunnel under traffic jams. See how you’ll enter his futuristic subway system. EXPERT OPINION BYERIC MACK, COLUMNIST, INC.COM@ERICCMACK JUL 26, 2017 Getty Images Elon Musk‘s latest startup,the Boring Company, is already making swift progress towards ...
“Boring Co urban loop system would have thousands of small stations the size of a single parking space that take you very close to your destination and blend seamlessly into the fabric of a city, rather than a small number of big stations like a subway,” Musk said in a separate tweet....
The Boring Company recently published a map on its website outlining where the tunnel network would initially go. The ambition of the project is clear: Musk is basically proposing to dig an entirely new subway system from scratch. The longest tunnel runs around 40 miles from the Sherman Oaks ...
In a new podcast interview with Recode's Kara Swisher Musk talked about The Boring Company and building a network of tunnels under Los Angeles. Again he brought up the dimensionality of the tunnel -- and distinguished what makes his tunnels different from a subway system. "...even subways ...
Musk has described a system in which vehicles or people pods are moved on electrically powered platforms called skates at speeds up to 155 mph (250 kph). Musk wants to build a tunnel across western Los Angeles and another between a Metro subway line and Dodger Stadium. ...
subway and as fast as an airplane, with bullet-like cars traveling inside vacuums illuminated by fancy LEDs, as shown by Virgin Hyperloop’s test below. A trip from Washington, D.C., to New York in one of these 600 mph trains “would take less than 30 minutes,” according to Musk. ...
Musk, who wants to builda super fast subway systemin Los Angeles, acknowledged those issues in his tweets. "Higher safety & environmental requirements & labor costs explain only a small part of the difference," he wrote. The real causes of the problems in the US are "an exponential growth...
Musk’s patter (hesaidin June that Tesla is “very close to achieving full self-driving without human supervision,” once again predicting fully driverless cars “later this year”) and actual progress on that front. Meanwhile, the Autopilot system has been involved inhundreds of crashesthat ...