View this post on Instagram
Elon Musk and his Boring Company have been very busy dig a deep , long cakehole under Los Angeles , and Musk wants to show it off .
On Saturday , the Tesla and SpaceX CEO place the first coup d’oeil of a mostly stop portion of the Boring Company ’s test site in California . Said tunnel bet pretty legit by tunnel standards , with cabling , paneled walls , what look like ventilation , and some variety of caterpillar track — it ’s unclear whether it ’s intended to carry mental synthesis equipment or paradigm fomite , but it does look far too small to carry the Boring Company’smonstrous Godot drill .
scene of The Boring Company LA tunnel take yesterdaypic.twitter.com/TfdVKyXFsJ
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)October 28 , 2017
In asubsequent tweet , Musk expressed his desire to keep on slow until the tunnel stretches from the airport to U.S. Route 101 , which would be quite a feat as the proposed itinerary would take drilling through Santa Monica , Brentwood or possibly Beverly Hills .
The portion evidence off above is “ 500 ft so far , ” he wrote . “ Should be 2 mi long in three or four month and hopefully stretch the whole 405 N - S corridor from LAX to the 101 in a twelvemonth or so . ”
Musk was to begin with restricted to tests on SpaceX company grounds , butreceived the go - aheadto commence turn over the tunnel further from the Hawthorne City Council in August .
Musk ’s state end goal is tobuild a vast connection of tunnelszipping with electrically powered sleigh acquit both passenger cars and possibly some form of little people mover at 125 international nautical mile per hour , in theory diverting some of L.A. ’s notorious gridlock into a quicker secondary shipping grid . But he ’s also been up front that the Boring Company issort of just a coolheaded experimentinspired by his woe with dealings .
I am actually proceed to do this
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)December 17 , 2016
Even if that experimentation is successful , building it on the monolithic ordered series shown in his concept videos would expect tearing up huge stretch of the city , and thus beating anunfriendly regulatory surroundings , not to name one thousand million of dollars in funding .
We ’ve asked the Boring Company for some more info , including just what that track is intended to carry , and will update this Charles William Post if we hear back .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5V_VzRrSBI
[ Engadget / The Verge / Twitter ]
Elon MuskTechnologyTESLAThe Boring Companytransportation
Daily Newsletter
Get the best tech , skill , and finish news in your inbox day by day .
newsworthiness from the futurity , deliver to your present .
You May Also Like
