Since the company’s introduction, many (including Futurism) have speculated that the tunnels’ true purpose was to work in tandem with the Hyperloop. This is the real clincher here. It seems like The Boring Company isn’t just going to be for cars. “The electric skate can transport automobiles, goods, and/or people. And if one adds a vacuum shell, it is now a Hyperloop Pod which can travel at 600+ miles per hour,” the site explains. — Futurism
Back in December, the business magnate Elon Musk tweeted his frustration of being stuck in LA traffic along with a half-joking suggestion of building a tunnel to fix his gridlocked woes.
I am actually going to do this
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 17, 2016
Well as it turns out, this simple musing has become a full-blown startup. The Boring Company, it is called, hopes to build a series of underground tunnels that will save Angelenos from such "soul-destroying traffic." The company has already found a way to dig tunnels at a much more cost effective and efficient rate and is now revealing the tunnel's potential to work in tandem with the Hyperloop.
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This is an exercise in pure idiocy, a fantasy of horror.
I'll take the bus, thanks. But only if it's on the surface.
claustrophobic?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BT_itC8h0Cx/ for the video. elonmusk[Warning, this may cause motion sickness or seizures] Now imagine a crash / accident / malfunction and shit piling up at 120 mph. How do you get out? Safety last.
same way you get out of the subway tunnels, escape routes every 200 yds or so. I get it can be scary, but hey, cars used to go at 15 mph on wood rims and still killed people and horses.
That's what they said about Tesla.
Nicolas or Musk's car? Someday people are going to realize their cars are burning coal, at 30% efficiency, no less.
The fear of riding this thing will probably make it a big financial failure even if it works well. I would not be caught dead in there.
Hyperloop: "What if we put subways where the highways are?"
Boring Company: "What if we put highways where the subways are?"
How again is this genius?
Not one dollar to fix the tens of thousands of critically degraded infrastructure elements in the US but 100s of billions to scatter shoot at every idea anyone comes up that is NOT fixing infrastructure. A more stark epitaph for our great nation could not be dreamed up.
Exactly, and well said.
Sounds like y'all may be in the market for a faster horse.
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