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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: 2) by dublet on Tuesday October 31 2017, @06:01PM
I attended a talk for HyperLoop and the CEO mentioned that they will lower costs by effectively only digging one tunnel that can house two HyperLoop tubes. So it's not so much about digging tunnels cheaper but instead digging fewer and utilising them to a higher extent.
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