- The project addresses "soul-destroying" traffic in L.A. His vision is to dig deep tunnels under the city so cars can be transported to their respective destinations in a faster manner.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk outlines tunnel plan to fix LA’s ‘soul-destroying’ trafficElon Musk, the visionary who built SpaceX and Tesla, has outlined his latest plan to build a network of high-speed freeways deep underneath Los Angeles, starting from a 500-foot-long experimental tunnel now under construction in Hawthorne.Musk- Tunnel experts, however, have cast doubts on his plans.
Elon Musk’s tunnel goals may be too lofty — even for the eccentric billionaireElon Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla may have revolutionized space travel and electric vehicle design and manufacturing, but experts say his latest lofty goal of increasing tunnel-building efficiency by at least 500 percent is absolutely ridiculous.- He got a hold of a boring machine and is currently digging a 500-foot tunnel on his property in Hawthorne as a test before digging through the streets of L.A. That test tunnel could be what he is referring to in his tweet. However, he can't dig anything off his property until he gets a permit from the City of Hawthorne. And even then, he can't start digging in L.A. until he gets a permit from that city, too.
Here’s what Elon Musk’s tunnel-boring machine at SpaceX will digWhen SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told his Twitter followers in December that he was sick of traffic and planning to build a tunnel-boring machine to “just start digging,” most thought it was a joke.Musk insisted, on Twitter — his- Many twitter users were also skeptical about the plan and Musk's tweet yesterday. Multiple tweets responded asking for photos.
- While others asked for a map or official plan.
- Other tweets were more sarcastic and snarky.
- But some did have some positive things to say.
- And others couldn't resist the opportunity to make evil underground lair and digging jokes.
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Elon Musk's Los Angeles underground tunnels seem far-fetched, but according to twitter the first segment is complete
Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is chief executive officer of high-tech companies SpaceX and Tesla, tweeted yesterday that his underground tunnel project in Los Angeles is well underway.
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