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The Boring Company's first tunnel opens its doors

Nick Lavars December 18, 2018

​The Boring Company has moved rather swiftly since CEO Elon Musk first floated the idea of overcoming LA’s notorious traffic woes by digging underneath them. Two years after he publicly raised the concept, the startup has now snipped the ribbon on its first tunnel.

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The Boring Company's delayed tunnel opening to feature car elevators and autonomous vehicles

Nick Lavars December 6, 2018

The Boring Company is edging closer to the unveiling of its very first tunnel, albeit a little behind schedule. The tunnel construction outfit announced today that it has pushed back the official opening event one week to December 18.

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Musk declares first Boring Company demo tunnel will open December 10

Nick Lavars October 22, 2018

The Boring Company's very first demonstration tunnel is apparently nearing completion, with CEO Elon Musk declaring on Twitter that it will open its doors on December 10, with free rides for the public to kick off the following day. ​

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The Boring Company pitches high-speed tunnel out to Dodger Stadium

Nick Lavars August 16, 2018

​​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.

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Elon Musk's first LA tunnel nears completion, with free rides to kick off this summer

Nick Lavars May 10, 2018

​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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Good Thinking

The Boring Company to sell large Lego-style bricks made from tunneled rock

Nick Lavars March 26, 2018

​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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Elon Musk's Boring Company shares potential map of LA tunnel network

Nick Lavars December 5, 2017

​​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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Elon Musk's first tunnel beneath LA starts to take shape

Nick Lavars October 29, 2017

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 claims green light for Hyperloop linking NYC and Washington

Nick Lavars July 20, 2017

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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Robotics

Autonomous tunnelling robot takes on the trenches

Ben Coxworth June 21, 2017

​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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