Elon Musk Revises The Boring Company Underground Tunnel Plan
Elon Musk has updated his vision for how the tunnels his Boring Company will dig can be utilized to help move people from here to there in congested cities — people first, cars later.
Elon Musk has updated his vision for how the tunnels his Boring Company will dig can be utilized to help move people from here to there in congested cities — people first, cars later.
Last week, Elon Musk hinted that he may use the Boring Company to dig a tunnel between the Tesla factory in Fremont to the seat manufacturing facility a mile away in order to remove one of the bottlenecks holding up volume production of the Model 3.
Elon Musk has some unkind things to say about the state of public transportation today. His remarks did not sit well with transportation engineers and urban planners.
In the late 19th century, trolley tracks and an elevated railway ran around the entire circumference of the city of Chicago. The encircling infrastructure came to be known as The Loop. The name stuck and is still used to refer to the central part of downtown Chicago today. It may even have been in Elon Musk’s subconscious mind the day he dreamed up his Hyperloop concept.
Elon Musk has posted a photo from inside the tunnel project The Boring Company is digging under the streets of Hawthorne, California. What do you see in the picture that is interesting or unusual?
Maryland has given provisional approval for The Boring Company to dig a 10 mile long tunnel that may become part of a Hyperloop linking New York City and Washington, DC.
Elon Musk posted a video on Instagram yesterday showing the first test of the elevator that will be used to raise and lower vehicles to the tunnels created by his Boring Company. Also, Consumer Reports has restored the top ranking of the Tesla Model S.
Judging from the latest news cycle, Elon Musk is the most powerful person on earth right now. With just a few tweets, he pushed everything else in the overnight news cycle into the background. His claim that he has “verbal government approval” to build a Hyperloop system from New York to Washington, DC, spurred the news media to try to find out exactly who had given the approval. A blizzard of phone calls to state and local authorities by the New York Times, the BBC, the Washington Post, the National Inquirer, and the South Succotash Tattler all failed to turn up a single clue.
Elon Musk took to Twitter today to say he has verbal permission to begin boring tunnels from NYC to DC. He also spoke about other routes under consideration.
What are the 6 biggest changes that will be occurring in the mobility sector before the year 2030? Self-driving taxis (aka robotaxis)? V2V technology rollout? Wide-scale adoption of plug-in electric vehicles?