He had also revealed the planned route of the first tunnel: "Full length of first tunnel will run from LAX to Culver City, Santa Monica, Westwood and Sherman Oaks. Future tunnels will cover all of greater LA." In June, Musk announced that The Boring Company completed the first segment of...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- The first section of the high-speed underground tunnel of Elon Musk's Boring Company makes it debut here on Tuesday night. Musk, chief executive officer of the Boring Company and Tesla Motors, took a modified Tesla Model X zipping through the tunnel, and...
Elon Musk hopes to have a tunnel running under a 17-mile stretch of highway in Los Angeles “in a year or so.” One of his multitude of companies,The Boring Co., is currently building tunnels under Los Angeles. Musk predicts cars will be rushed through the tunnels in pods going...
Musk said it took about $10 million to build the test tunnel, a far cry from the $1 billion per mile his company says most tunnels take to build. Musk has cut costs by improving the speed of construction with smarter tools, eliminating middlemen, building more powerful boring machines,...
Just as Musk improved electric cars and reusable rockets, he wants to improve the way that we build tunnels. Speaking to Wired, Musk said, "better tunneling tech improves everything: road, subway, Hyperloop." Since Los Angeles is the most congested city in the U.S., surely they might ...
Musk describes a system, which The Boring Company calls "Loop," as one in which vehicles would descend via elevators into tunnels and speed along in electrically-powered pods. "Loop is a high-speed underground public transportation system in whichpassengers are transported on autonomous e...
Elon Musk says a ride on tunnels beneath Los Angeles will cost $1 Boring Company proposes tunnel link to Dodger Stadium Elon Musk's Boring Co. asked to build Chicago high-speed transit Information about the "Loop" tunnel segment's opening came in short tweets Sunday night from Musk....
Musk's vision depends on him being able to do it all faster and cheaper than current industry standards. While modern subway tunnels in Los Angeles cost around $900 million per mile, he says he built his for about $10 million. One way he saved money: he literally made it dirt-cheap. ...
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Tunnels are Mr Musk’s solution for chronic congestion in cities around the world, but the idea has alreadyraised challengesfrom some environmental campaigners and neighbourhood associations in Los Angeles. A Boring Company spokesman said that tunnelling could begin as soon as the first quarter of ...