Elon Musk's First LA Tunnel Nears Completion, With Free Rides To Kick Off This Summer (newatlas.com)

The Boring Company has made some pretty impressive strides in its relatively short existence. Elon Musk first shared his vision for the company in December 2016, promising to solve traffic woes with networks of tunnels for city centers. It is now adding the finishing touches to its first burrow. From a report: In a video shared on Instagram today, Musk showed what a trip through one of these tunnels would look like. He also declared the Boring Company's first tunnel under LA to be almost complete, and that "pending final regulatory approvals, we will be offering free rides to the public in a few months."

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Re:That was fast!

[Actually, I do RTFA]

It's pretty short... it was 500 feet in October (so maybe double that now). He keeps drawing hockey stick growth curves for length (a few miles in a few months, 20 in the next year), but he also said Tesla was going to be cranking out 5k cars/week a year ago.

It may get there, but it's going to be a slower uptake than he claims.

Re:Is it reinforced?

[chispito]

honestly while I do like quite a bit of what Elon does, there are indeed times I think he really does jump the gun and start building, long before something is even fully plausible on paper. The technical requirements and problems in the hyper-loop (thermal expansion problems, and just in general trying to make hundred mile long functioning vacume tubes). Those limits and requirements seem... pretty insane to me.

Then let him try and, if he fails, fail. Let him fail another twenty times if if yields just one more Spacex.