Elon Musk's Next Venture Is Boring Tunnels

Tesla and SpaceX’s Elon Musk has floated the idea in the past of digging tunnels under highways to reduce traffic – an idea he had while sitting in Los Angeles traffic. Now he is apparently serious about doing it and he even has a name and tagline for the venture: “The Boring Company – Boring, it’s what we do.” He has been thinking about the idea for a while. In January 2016, he mentioned it during SpaceX’s Hyperloop pod design competition: “It’s a really simple and obvious idea and I wish more people would do it: build more tunnels. Tunnels are great. It’s just a hole in the ground, it’s not that hard. But if you have tunnels in cities you would massively alleviate congestion and you could have tunnels at all different levels – you could probably have 30 layers of tunnels and completely fix the congestion problem in high-density cities. So I strongly recommend tunnels.”
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TomM - 12/19/2016 4:46:39 PM

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Obviously - Mr. Musk is preparing to need a place to hide - when other ventures don't pan out.

PUGPROUD - 12/19/2016 4:53:09 PM

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BORING!

t_bone - 12/19/2016 8:26:17 PM

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I think its brilliant. Also, in this highly controlled environment is the only case where I think self-driving cars make sense. Be even better with drive-on rails that interfaced with car chassis and could do 200 mph.

MDarringer - 12/19/2016 11:51:51 PM

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His small penis made him do this.

MDarringer - 12/19/2016 11:51:51 PM

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His small penis made him do this.

qwertyfla - 12/20/2016 6:00:45 PM

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Caterpillar tried this and failed with the acquisition and disposition of Lovat in Toronto. If Cat -one of the largest construction concerns in the world couldn't make it a viable product, how will Musk? Maybe they will be solar powered?

I am glad that I am no share holder in his ventures as he is taking on way more than he can chew...

SanJoseDriver - 12/20/2016 8:27:35 PM

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You can say the same about GM, Ford, and Chrysler not being able to make a viable electric car, or NASA being able to make a re-usable rocket.

MDarringer - 12/20/2016 10:06:02 PM

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Oh Tesla$uckTool...

MDarringer - 12/20/2016 10:06:02 PM

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Oh Tesla$uckTool...

SanJoseDriver - 12/21/2016 8:36:48 PM

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What are you, 5 years old?

carloslassiter - 12/20/2016 8:06:34 PM

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Musk develops ways to alleviate urban congestion, some fat guy on the internet perfects criticizing him with brilliant zingers.

MDarringer - 12/20/2016 8:19:26 PM

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There are no environmental / safety concerns with this I'm sure.