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September 14, 2018

The Boring Company starts work on prototype garage with private entrance to tunnel network

 

Imagine walking into your garage and hopping in your car to drive to work, except rather than toughing it out on the traffic-choked roads of LA, an elevator drops you directly into a high-speed tunnel network sprawling beneath the city. The Boring Company has just gained approval to work towards this future, and will now build a prototype garage that will connect with one of its existing test tunnels.

Elon Musk first floated the idea of building tunnel networks beneath cities to avoid traffic in 2016, and the concept has gathered some considerable momentum since. Speaking on popular podcast The Joe Rogan Experience this week, he explained the inspiration for it thusly.

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“The fundamental issue with roads is you have a 2D transport system and a 3D living and workspace environment,” he said. “So you have got all these tall buildings or concentrated work environments and then you want to go into this 2D transport system, which is pretty low density, because cars are spaced out pretty far. And so, that is obviously not going to work, you’re going to have traffic guaranteed. But if you can go 3D on your transport system, then you can solve all traffic.”

Rather than turn to flying cars like many have, his tunneling startup The Boring Company aims to deposit cars and people into subterranean tubes through elevators and ramps. Once there, they would be hitched onto electric sleds and shuttled along at speeds of up to 150 mph (241 km/h) across the city.

These elevators and ramps would be built into the cityscape, much like entrances to subway stations, and now it appears they could one day pop up in people’s homes, too. As reported by The Mercury News, The Boring Company has been granted approval from the Hawthorne City Council, where it is headquartered, to build a new kind of garage as a proof of concept.

Keep reading on NewAtlas.com

 


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