Video Shows Elon Musk's 'Boring' Tunnel Vision

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk late last year announced his intent to build a network of underground tunnels to help drivers avert congestion, and now nosotros finally have an thought of how the system will work, if the plan actually comes to fruition.

The Wearisome Company, Musk's latest project, on Friday posted a video offer a commencement look at the clandestine transportation system it's hoping to develop. As you can see below, drivers would pull their machine onto a metal platform on the side of the road, and the vehicle would then be lowered into the undercover tunnel system.

Based on the video, it looks similar drivers would then be able to sit dorsum and take a intermission. Their car would remain on the metal platform (reportedly chosen a "skate") and be transported through the tunnel at around 124mph.

Musk start announced his irksome ambitions on Twitter in December.

"Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring automobile and just get-go digging..." he wrote, following that up with another tweet maxim, "I am really going to exercise this."

Turns out, he was serious. In January, Musk said he's making "progress on the tunnel front," and planned to start digging "in a calendar month or so."

During a TED Talk on Friday, Musk said the skate would ship cars through the tunnel at upwardly to 130mph, co-ordinate to Business Insider. At that rate, you lot'd be able to get from Westwood to Los Angeles in v minutes, he reportedly said.

At that place'due south at least 1 major trouble holding back this program at the moment: tunnel boring is a ridiculously wearisome procedure. Musk and The Boring Visitor are aiming to build a better boring machine — ane that can dig a tunnel and reinforce its walls at the same time — to speed up the procedure.

"We have a pet snail called Gary. ... So Gary is capable of currently going 14 times faster than a tunnel boring machine," Musk said, according to Business Insider. "We want to beat Gary."

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