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Elon Musk presents underground LA tunnel project

Phys.org - Fri 18 May 18

Entrepreneur Elon Musk has given updated details of a project to build high-speed transport tunnels underneath Los Angeles in a bid to combat traffic and said he wanted to work with the city's ...

Elon Musk says LA-area test tunnel almost complete

Phys.org - Fri 11 May 18

Billionaire Elon Musk says he's almost completed a tunnel under a Los Angeles suburb to test a transportation system that would scoot commuters underground on electric sleds.

Elon Musk says public will pay $1 for 150mph Loop journeys under LA

Daily Mail - Fri 18 May 18

Elon Musk shared more details about the project, which will carry passengers at high speeds aboard electric shuttles, at a Boring Company event in Los Angeles on Thursday evening.

Elon Musk brings high-tech charm offensive to Los Angeles tunnel plan

Reuters Technology - Fri 18 May 18

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk promised a cheering crowd on Thursday that his controversial dream of burrowing a high-speed network of "personalized mass transit" ...

The biggest news from Elon Musk’s Boring Company meeting in LA

The Verge - Fri 18 May 18

Elon Musk was talking in public again, this time at Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles’ posh Bel Air neighborhood. Most of the conversation, with Steve Davis of the Boring Company, ...

I went to Elon Musk’s Boring Company LA pep rally

The Verge - Fri 18 May 18

Attendees of Elon Musk’s Wednesday night presentation-slash-forum for his Boring Company were greeted by soccer mom snacks: Capri Suns and orange slices plastic-wrapped on individual ...

Elon Musk talks proof-of-concept tunnel parallel to the 405 in Los Angeles

Ars Technica - Fri 18 May 18

Musk's youngest company will keep LA Metro informed on its plans.

Elon Musk pitches 150 MPH rides in Boring Company tunnels for $1

Engadget - Fri 18 May 18

Tonight at The Boring Company Information Session not all of the talk centered on flamethrowers. Elon Musk and project leader Steve Davis described many details of their visions for ...

Elon Musk's Boring Company wants to charge $1 for a 150 mph Loop ride - CNET

CNET - Thu 17 May 18

The Loop could get you from Downtown Los Angeles to Los Angeles International Airport in eight minutes.

Elon Musk brings technology charm offensive to Los Angeles tunnel plan

Reuters Technology - Thu 17 May 18

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is bringing his technology charm offensive to an attempt at digging a tunnel beneath part of Los Angeles to test designs for a high-speed ...

Elon Musk to Unveil Further Plans for L.A. Tunnel Project

KQED Science - Thu 17 May 18

Entrepreneur’s The Boring Company has completed work on a 2-mile test tunnel in the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne.

Elon Musk to detail Boring Company plans to link Hyperloop, rockets - CNET

CNET - Wed 16 May 18

The SpaceX, Tesla and Boring Company CEO is set to talk tunnels Thursday in Los Angeles.

Elon Musk promises free rides through tunnel, but to where?

Reuters - Sat 12 May 18

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Billionaire businessman Elon Musk is promising the public "free rides" in the next few months through the first high-speed passenger tunnel drilled beneath Los Angeles ...

Musk's hyperloop underneath LA could soon be ready for rides

USA today - Fri 11 May 18

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO revealed that his high speed public transportation solution for LA traffic is almost complete.        

Here’s what Elon Musk’s 2.7-mile tunnel in LA looks like

Ars Technica - Fri 11 May 18

There are a lot of unanswered questions about the ambitious project.

Elon Musk releases video of Boring Company's first tunnel, says free rides are coming soon

Techspot - Fri 11 May 18

Elon Musk has released a time-lapse video showing the first tunnel in a network that’s being built under Los Angeles by his Boring Company. In an Instagram post, the Tesla boss said the tunnel ...

Elon Musk plans to offer free test rides through LA tunnel ‘in a few months’

The Verge - Fri 11 May 18

The Boring Company’s first tunnel being dug under Los Angeles is almost complete, Elon Musk said in a tweet Thursday. And pending regulatory approval, Grimes’s boyfriend plans ...

Elon Musk to offer free rides in his LA traffic-dodging tunnel

Engadget - Fri 11 May 18

Elon Musk has posted a video of Boring Company's first nearly completed tunnel under Los Angeles, which heads towards LAX and has an extra entrance at the SpaceX Hawthorne HQ. ...

Elon Musk’s ‘Loop’ is no Hyperloop but it’s still pretty fast (and cheap)

Techradar - Fri 18 May 18

Elon Musk has revealed a whole host of details about his subterranean tunnel transportation system called Loop.

Free Rides Under LA Coming Soon, Then DC To NYC And LA To SF #ElonTweets

CleanTechnica - Fri 11 May 18

Elon Musk has tweeted that the first tunnel under LA is nearly complete, a tunnel from DC to NYC is already started, and one from LA to SF will begin next year. But some experts think he is ...

Elon Musk's first tunnel is almost complete and he's offering free rides

Inhabitat - Fri 11 May 18

Another day, another genius marketing idea from Elon Musk. In an Instagram post, Musk announced that he plans to offer free rides in The Boring Company's first tunnel — which he described ...

Elon Musk’s subterranean LA tunnel is almost ready – and he’s offering free rides

Techradar - Fri 11 May 18

Elon Musk has taken to social media to announce that the LA Boring Company tunnel is nearing completion.