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Elon Musk: Boring Company began as a joke, LA transit plan may fail
- Elon Musk appeared on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast on
Friday, where he said that The Boring Company first started as a
joke. - Musk said that he couldn’t be sure that the project’s
ambitious plans to build a high-speed transport system under LA
would be successful — but the idea was born out of “desperation.” -
“I don’t see any other ideas for improving the
traffic,” Musk said.
Elon Musk described The Boring Company is a “hobby company”
that first started as a joke — and said there is a reasonable
chance that his plan to build tunnels for a transit network under
LA would be successful.
On the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast on Friday, Musk outlined
the origins of The Boring Company, a tunnel construction company
that is trying to build a high-speed transit systems
under LA, and later other cities.
“I have this, it’s sort of
a hobby company, called the Boring Company, which started out as
a joke.
“And we decided to make it real,
and dig a tunnel under LA. And then other people asked us to
build tunnels so we said yes in a few cases.”
You can watch the interview
below. Musk talks about The Boring Company 30 seconds into the
clip:
The company has now dug a mile
under LA, Musk said. “
We’ve dug about a mile. It’s quite long. It
takes a long time to walk it.”
Musk posted footage on his Instagram in May from inside the
tunnels, and said he wanted to open them to the public “in a
few months.” The Instagram post is now deleted, along with the
rest of his account, and the public opening has yet to
materialise.
On the podcast, Musk joked that
he couldn’t be sure that the project would be a
success.
“
I’m not saying it’s going to be successful.
It’s not, like, asserting it’s going to be successful. But so far
I’ve lived in LA for 16 years and the traffic has always been
terrible. And so I don’t see any other ideas for improving the
traffic.
“So in desperation, we are going
to build a tunnel, and maybe that tunnel will be successful. And
maybe it won’t.
“
I’m not trying to convince you it’s going to
work. Or anyone,” Musk told Rogan.
Musk said that the company hopes
to build tunnel systems in other cities, following successful
completion in LA.
He also explained why he started
there:
“It’s in LA
because I mostly live in LA. That’s the reason. It’s a terrible
place to dig tunnels.”
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