The Boring Company
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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Geotechnical engineering |
| Founder | Elon Musk |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Elon Musk Steve Davis (Project Leader) |
| Products | Infrastructure |
| Website | boringcompany |
The Boring Company (TBC;[1] also To Be Continued, Tunnels R Us and American Tubes and Tunnels)[2] is an infrastructure and tunneling company founded by Elon Musk in late 2016 after he mentioned the idea of making tunnels on his Twitter account.[3] Musk cited difficulty with Los Angeles traffic and limitations with the current 2-D transportation network as inspiration for the tunneling project.[4][2]
History
As of February 2017, the company has begun digging a 30-foot-wide (9 m), 50-foot-long (15 m), and 15-foot-deep (4.6 m) testing trench on the premises of SpaceX's offices in Los Angeles, since construction on its site requires no permits.[2][5] According to Musk himself, the company's goal is to enhance tunneling speed enough such that establishing an underground tunnel network is financially feasible.[6][5]
"If you think of tunnels going 10, 20, 30 layers deep (or more), it is obvious that going 3D down will encompass the needs of any city’s transport of arbitrary size."
— Elon Musk[7]
In March 2017, Musk announced that sometime in April the company will start using a tunnel boring machine (TBM) to begin digging a usable tunnel at SpaceX.[8] At the end of April 2017, a TBM was seen at SpaceX with the company's name on the side.[9] The TBM was revealed to be named "Godot" in May 2017, after the Beckett play Waiting for Godot. Future TBMs will be named after poems, plays, poets and playwrights.[10]
In May 2017, Musk says the first route created will run from LAX to Culver City, then to Santa Monica and end in Westwood. Musk claims the tunnel trip will take five minutes, compared to normal driving that can take up to 45 minutes in normal traffic to go from LAX to Westwood.[11] These trips will be implemented by placing a car on an electric sled and traveling at 125 mph (200 km/h) through tunnels.
References
- ^ Division of Corporations (11 January 2017), "TBC - THE BORING COMPANY", Department of State, State of Delaware, 6279803
- ^ a b c Chafkin, Max (16 February 2017). "Elon Musk Is Really Boring". Bloomberg. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
- ^ Gajanan, Mahita (18 December 2016). "Elon Musk's Next Venture to Tackle Traffic Is Totally 'Boring'". Fortune. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
- ^ Peyser, Eve (30 January 2017). "Elon Musk on Digging Big-Ass Tunnel: 'We Have No Idea What We're Doing'". Gizmodo. Retrieved 17 February 2017.
- ^ a b Heathman, Amelia. "Elon Musk's boring machine has already built a 'test trench' in LA". WIRED UK. Retrieved 2017-02-19.
- ^ Thompson, Avery (February 16, 2017). "Elon Musk Is Really Making a Boring Company". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ "Elon Musk's Tunnel Under LA Is Already in Progress". Wired magazine. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
- ^ Galeon,Dom (March 24, 2017) Elon Musk: We Start Digging the Tunnel Under L.A. Next Month
- ^ Elon Musk launches Boring Company to dig tunnels Business Insider, Retrieved May 10, 2017
- ^ Denisse Moreno (11 May 2017). "SpaceX, Tesla CEO Elon Musk Reveals Name Of His Tunnel Boring Machine: Godot". International Business Times.
- ^ Elon Musk’s new video of his underground tunnel project will make you nauseated The Verge, May 12, 2017
External links
- The Boring Company's list of frequently asked questions
- The future we're building -- and boring | Elon Musk TED Talks on YouTube
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