Brace yourself. Elon Musk shares video of 200 km/h tunnel test run
Two weeks after unveiling the first images of the 3D tunnel network system that would allow cars to travel at speeds of up to 200 km/h on sleds, Elon Musk shared a test run.
Warning viewers the clip “may cause motion sickness or seizures”, Elon Musk shared a video of a test run of the electric sled that would transport cars at 125 mph (200 km/h) through the tunnels, automatically switching from one tunnel to the next.
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“We want to dig a hole under LA and this is to create the beginning of what we hope to be a 3D network of tunnels to alleviate congestion. Right now, one of the most soul-destroying things is traffic. It affects people in every part of the world, it takes away so much of your life, it’s horrible,” Elon Musk said in a Ted talk.
The Boring Company recently published a simulation of the tunnel network and showed how it would work.
The tunnel system will be done with boring machines, the first of which Musk named Godot. Musk publicly announced in December a project to build a tunnel to relieve urban traffic congestion called “The Boring Company.”
Musk said that the goal is to improve tunneling speed “somewhere between 500 and 1,000%,” and that the starting point was a “test trench” on the grounds of SpaceX’s Hawthorne, California headquarters.
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