Elon Musk hates traffic. He hates it so much that he founded the Boring Company to dig underground passageways you can travel through to avoid it.
In Hawthorne, Los Angeles, Musk’s Boring Company has been hard at work digging a tunnel 40 feet underground. And, perhaps because Hawthorne is a low-income part of Los Angeles County, The Atlantic reports that the Boring Company has been able to do so without involving or even officially informing the local community.
As The Outline reported in May, LA County gave the Boring Company permission to rely solely on its own environmental studies. Additionally, the county approved its tunnels in small parts — by breaking up the approval process, each tunnel segment became an individual, smaller-scale project subject to looser environmental laws.
That’s how, according to The Atlantic, Hawthorne residents remained totally unaware that the Boring Company was tunneling through the ground beneath their homes.
This tunnel won’t actually benefit the people of Hawthorne, even with The Boring Company’s weird garage elevator. That’s because, aside from vague promises to connect these tunnels to public transit systems, its intended use will be to shuttle people and their cars from point A to point B on high-speed skates.
So for the people of Hawthorne who had the rug pulled out from under them, the crowded highway that Musk hates so much will probably still be the only option.
Elon Cong….Varmint Cong…
I would think this is a violation of property rights, if not also mineral rights. Without a declaration of eminent domain, that would make it theft, or ‘taking without compensation.’
Our marketing department is gearing up to make a toll booth scanner app that will allow the trespassers to pay their tolls via digital wallets.
Seems like Mush has way more money than common sense.
High Speed Skates?
Another Musk scam…
story at 11: tunnel traffic. how you can avoid it.
About had it with liberal’s good ideas at OUR expense. Not one damn dime from tax payers. If project is financially feasible let venture capitalist take on the risk, collect the rewards. The only role the government should have is fast tracking permits and firing those who can’t get it done while collecting fat government pay checks.
I’ll bet he’s been reading Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth!
Maybe he can establish a new trade route from the U.S. to China!
” Additionally, the county approved its tunnels in small parts — by breaking up the approval process, each tunnel segment became an individual, smaller-scale project subject to looser environmental laws.”
If true, I believe that is violation of Federal law.
If that tunnel was under my property, I wonder how hard it would be to bore a hole down to it, and connect my sewer line?
What happens if he hits oil?
Tesla cars outsell Mercedes and BMW. In the next year may be the largest seller of luxury vehicles.
Volvo ordered 400 electric Tractor Trailers. 65mph uphill, almost double diesel rigs. From a dead stop to 65mph as fast as a car. Leaves diesels in the rear view mirror.
Yeah, Elon Musk is an idiot and a scammer.
@TonyR
You can buy do-it-yourself well drilling kits that can easily go down 40 ft.
Wow. Crankiest article I’ve read all day. I’ll be sure to stay off of the authors race baiting class struggle anti capitalist lawn for sure.
This is the same inventor guy who sold 26 thousand Teslas to Norway and launched a car into orbit, right?
Damn this author is a ‘straight’ up playa hater.
@ Mark S. McGrew…..how many miles per recharge? and how long does the recharge take? A Tractor needs to punt off 500/700 miles a day and I’ve driven a tractor trailer with 40K in the trailer up a 14% grade at 50 miles an hour….diesel is the answer to big trucks and grocery getters….own it, electric cars will never work….
“Tesla cars outsell Mercedes and BMW”
My math needs remedial. I found Tesla sales for 2017 to be ~103K units. BMW ~2.5 million.