No one is more committed to ensuring that we live in a science fiction utopia that Elon Musk. At the TED Conference last month, Musk discussed his plan to build a "3D network of tunnels" beneath Los Angeles to reduce traffic, and he debuted a video demonstrating how the system w...
Guests boarded Musk’s Tesla Model X and rode along Los Angeles-area surface streets about a mile (1.6 kilometers) away to what’s known as O’Leary Station. The station, smack dab in the middle of a residential neighborhood —“basically in someone’s backyard,” Musk says — consist...
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’s Boring Company has unveiled the latest component of their visionary plans for a network of tunnels under Los Angeles. The new “Hawthorne” test tunnel, built at the corner of SpaceX’s parking lot, forms part of Musk’s mission to reduce traffic in cities through a dual...
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 ...
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk Brian Snyder | Reuters 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 ...
The new tunnel will reportedly run under Hawthorne, just southwest of Los Angeles. Last month, Musk said his tunneling company idea actually “started out as joke” but it later morphed into a hobby company and now he plans to build tunnels in other cities, “eventually.” "We decided to ...
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 ele...
Elon Musk says a ride on tunnels beneath Los Angeles will cost $1 Information about the "Loop" tunnel segment's opening came in short tweets Sunday night from Musk. "The first tunnel is almost done," he tweeted Sunday night. "Opens Dec 10," he typed to his 23.1 million followers...
Last year, the Hawthorne City Council approved an approximately 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) test tunnel from Musk's SpaceX rocket plant to a point east of Los Angeles International Airport. Musk has described a system in which vehicles would descend via elevators into tunnels and move on electrically...