Musk Apparently Not Joking About Tunnel Boring Venture
January 25th, 2017Is this real?
Via: Electrek:
If you weren’t convinced that Tesla CEO Elon Musk was serious about launching a new company to start digging tunnels, maybe you will be now that he is putting a timeline on the project.
He announced early this morning that they have made “exciting progress” and that he expects to start digging “in a month or so.”
That would be only about two months after announcing his new venture, which could be called “The Boring Company”.
But he has been thinking about it for over a year. He mentioned it during SpaceX’s Hyperloop pod design competition in January 2016:
“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.”
It went from “I wish more people would build more tunnels” a year ago to this earlier this morning:
Exciting progress on the tunnel front. Plan to start digging in a month or so.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 25, 2017
And he needed to emphasize that he is serious again:
@clay_ellis Yup
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 25, 2017
