The Boring Company
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The Boring Company was conceived as a solution to LA’s traffic woes, and the first people to benefit from its forward-thinking tunnel networks may be the city’s sports fans. The company today announced a proposed transport link between the LA Metro and Dodger Stadium. -
The City of Chicago has just selected Elon Musk's Boring Company to design, build, pay for, operate and maintain the Express Loop, which will see a network of electric pods carry up to 16 people from downtown Chicago to O'Hare Airport in as little as 12 minutes.
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The Boring Company has made some pretty impressive strides in its relatively short existence. It is now adding the finishing touches to its first burrow, a test track running beneath the city of Los Angeles.
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The Boring Company has come up with some interesting ways to finance its tunneling aspirations. A newly announced piece of merch to be offered by the firm will be more closely tied to its digging ventures, fashioning the rock it pulls from the Earth into Lego-like bricks for construction.
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On top of plans to dig tunnels, create supersonic travel pods, colonize Mars, and load his own Tesla Roadster into the world's most powerful rocket, it seems Elon Musk is getting into the flamethrower game.
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The Boring Company was dreamt up by serial entrepreneur Elon Musk as a way of solving traffic woes, and the notoriously choked up highways of LA are among its very first targets. With a proof-of-concept tube already underway, The Boring Company has now expanded on its plans for the City of Angels.
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Building a tunnel is a traditionally painstaking process that moves along at glacial pace, but The Boring Company believes it can get things done a whole lot quicker. And if an image shared by CEO Elon Musk over the week is anything to go by, it is wasting little time getting started.
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In the four or so years since Elon Musk first revealed his Hyperloop concept, it was kind of assumed that the serial entrepreneur was simply too busy to take on the project himself. Reports now indicate the South African billionaire is moving full steam ahead with a Hyperloop of his own.
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A descending platform for vehicles won't be the most difficult engineering problem that Elon Musk hopes to solve with The Boring Company. But progress is progress, and the multi-tasking CEO has shown off his latest step forward with a video of the company's car elevator in action.
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When Elon Musk started talking about digging tunnels as a way of avoiding traffic, a lot of people were hesitant to take the SpaceX CEO seriously. Not only is he now starting to convince the average joe that such a thing might be possible, but the people in power, too.
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Elon Musk's tunneling venture The Boring Company, as it is known, has now updated its website to reveal yet further detail on his vision for sprawling underground tunnel networks, including a section that clearly lays out the key technological challenges ahead.
