Tag Archives: Boring Company
Two Las Vegas casinos want to join the Boring Company’s tube system
The Boring Company completes excavation of its Las Vegas tunnels
Boring Company will expand to China in late August
The Boring Company's tunnel projects haven't had the warmest reception in the US, but that might not matter as much in the near future. Elon Musk has revealed that he'll be launching the company in China while visiting Shanghai for the World Artific...
Elon Musk’s Boring Co. raises $120 million in outside funding
Elon Musk's plan to connect major cities with Hyperloop tunnels is raising the interest of investors. Boring Co. authorized the sale of $120 million in stock today, reported Bloomberg. It's the first outside investment for Musk's infrastructure compa...
New York Senate passes ban on Elon Musk’s Not-A-Flamethrower
If you live in New York state and bought one of The Boring Company's Not-A-Flamethrowers, you probably want to get rid of it shortly. The state's Senate recently passed a bill that bans the possession of a flamethrower for recreational purposes, and...
After Math: What’s the holdup?
This week's theme is waiting. Sonic the Hedgehog fans will have to do three months of it after complaining about Sonic's oddly human teeth, while Julian Assange won't have to do any more to know what charges the Feds are leveling at him. Let's get st...
Las Vegas taps Elon Musk’s Boring Company for transport project
Your next visit to Las Vegas might include a peek at the possible future of transportation. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has recommended choosing Elon Musk's The Boring Company to develop an underground tunnel loop that would use...
Mr. Musk’s anti-traffic tunnels
ICMYI (In Case You Missed It) turns out, Elon Musk isn’t joking. The traffic in Los Angeles pushed him to reinvent travel yet again… first with Tesla, second (and more broadly) with SpaceX), now the Boring Company aims at doing something you would expect from an Isaac Asimov novel.
The basic plan (as the video shows) is to convert the entire city’s underground into a dizzying network of life-size Hot Wheels tracks that cross, overlap, merge, etc., covering each and every nook and corner of the city. To regulate the traffic, cars wouldn’t drive on these tracks… They would be carried on platforms that move at speeds as high as 200kmph (even though your car isn’t technically moving, you’ll still need that seatbelt). These platforms appear on the road above and when the car parks itself inside it, they descend downwards into the network of tunnels and take off. It’s safe to say that this will obviously take some time, since Mr. Musk has a lot of projects to work on. Putting humans on Mars being one of the loftier objectives!
Designer: Elon Musk (The Boring Company)
