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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.
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(Score: 4, Informative) by bob_super on Tuesday October 31 2017, @04:49PM (1 child)
*stares in disbelief*
You guys all know that MY, London, Paris, Shanghai have giant networks of tunnels, including under their respective rivers (therefore below the water table and/or sea level), that millions of people use for transportation, freight, and occasionally to hide from inconveniences like bombs dropping from the sky, right? It's only late-XIXth tech...
It must be too early, and i missed a /s...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Wednesday November 01 2017, @02:09AM
To put it simply, no, they do not. We are talking Runaway1066 here. Pumps! Lets be honest!