Imagine this!
A South African wakes up one day in December and tweets:
Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging…
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2016
Then he actually says the name of the company would be “The Boring Company”
It shall be called "The Boring Company"
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2016
He adds
Boring, it's what we do
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2016
He then goes ahead to create the company. The site clearly states the objective of the company.
“To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D, which means either flying cars or tunnels. Unlike flying cars, tunnels are weatherproof, out of sight and won’t fall on your head. A large network of tunnels many levels deep would fix congestion in any city, no matter how large it grew (just keep adding levels). The key to making this work is increasing tunneling speed and dropping costs by a factor of 10 or more – this is the goal of The Boring Company. ”
In February 2017, the company started digging a 30-foot-wide (9 m), 50-foot-long (15 m), and 15-foot-deep (4.6 m) testing trench on the premises of SpaceX’s offices in Los Angeles.
In a recent TED Conference interview, he said this company’s project has taken 2% of his time, making this project a personal hobby. A hobby? 🙂
In April 2017, he released a video of his dream, his tunnel of roads.
In June, he tweeted that he had promising conversations with the Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, regarding the tunnel network. He backed his statement with a clip from ABC7’s Newsmakers in which Garcetti mentions Musk’s tunneling technology in the context of building an express train from LA’s Union Station to LAX airport.
Promising conversations with @MayorOfLA regarding tunnel network that would carry cars, bikes & pedestrians. Permits harder than technology. https://t.co/0dxrXBOOWy
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 18, 2017
There could be an #express train @unionstationla to @flyLAXairport–Here's @MayorOfLA @ericgarcetti on #Newsmakers. #WATCH 11AM Sun @ABC7 pic.twitter.com/zJAFTge2VO
— Adrienne Alpert (@AdrienneAlpert) June 17, 2017
Some days later he tweeted that he had received verbal government approval to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop, which means you should be able to get from New York to Washington DC in 29 mins
Just received verbal govt approval for The Boring Company to build an underground NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop. NY-DC in 29 mins.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2017
City center to city center in each case, with up to a dozen or more entry/exit elevators in each city
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2017
Though he also acknowledged that he still needed a lot of work to receive formal approval.
Still a lot of work needed to receive formal approval, but am optimistic that will occur rapidly
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 20, 2017
On Wednesday 26th July, he shared a video on Instagram testing the car elevator taking a Tesla Model S underground.
The elevator is a part of the Boring Company’s project to build a network of tunnels under Los Angeles, through which cars, passengers, and cargo would be dragged in super-fast-moving sleds.
It all started when he said traffic was driving him nuts in Los Angeles. Awesome!
I am keenly following this project.
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Honestly, this project is the best. The Boring company. Traffic drive everybody crazy especially here in Lagos. Thanks admin for the update.
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