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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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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Elon Musk today claimed he has received verbal approval from the US government to build a high-speed transport link between New York and Washington, cutting travel time between the cities to just 29 minutes.
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Installing underground pipes can be a disruptive process. A trench has to be dug first, which is filled back in once the piping has been laid along the bottom. Might it not be easier if tunnels could simply be bored directly into the soil? That's what the BADGER robot is being designed to do.
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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.
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On April 4, 2017, the world's largest boring machine broke through to the open air. Called Bertha,the story of how it made its journey under the skyscrapers of the port city is not only a tale of a remarkable machine, but also of proving the old adage that what can go wrong will go wrong.
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Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is sharing yet another vision for the future and this time it's totally underground. The originator of the Hyperloop showed off a concept for escaping rush hour traffic via high-speed conveyance through a network of tunnels at TED in Vancouver on Friday.
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