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posted by martyb on Tuesday October 31 2017, @03:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the can-you-dig-it? dept.

Elon Musk has released an image showing a tunnel under Hawthorne, California, near SpaceX's headquarters:

Musk's LA tunnel is a pilot project designed to test the feasibility of his plan to dig tunnels at a lower cost and more efficiently than current tunnel boring companies operate, with the eventual aim of supplying cities and regions with underground tunnel networks that can transport goods and services while avoiding surface obstacles and traffic.

The Boring Co. is still a long way from achieving the grand vision of constructing inter-city underground Hyperloop tubes for high-speed travel, but it's making rapid progress on its initial test digging and tunnel construction, which should go some way to proving to its detractors that this is more than just a pipe dream.

Also at Engadget and The Verge.

Previously: Elon Musk Wants to be Boring
Tunnel to 'Underworld' Discovered Beneath Mexican Pyramid
Elon Musk Claims to Have "Verbal Approval" to Build New York to Washington, D.C. Hyperloop
NY-Philly-Baltimore-DC Hyperloop: Not Vaporware?


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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday October 31 2017, @03:55AM (5 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Tuesday October 31 2017, @03:55AM (#589851) Journal
    He released an artists conception of a tunnel and that's news?

    I guess they need more suckers^w investors again.
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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:00AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:00AM (#589852) Journal

    It's The Boring Company. What do you expect?

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:13AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:13AM (#589857) Journal

      It's The Boring Company. What do you expect?

      Excitement please?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @03:56PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @03:56PM (#590060)

    Umm no its an actual picture of the tunnel hes created, its not an artists conception. Maybe if you weren't biased you wouldn't jump to conclusions slugger.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:13PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:13PM (#590065)

      It doesn't look like a photo. It's either a high resolution artists rendering or there's been some severe postprocessing.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:29PM (#590070)

    Kind of like all of the artist's renderings of solar system objects. I'm beginning to doubt we've ever been to space.