Elon Musk has published the first photo of the tunnel that The Boring Company is building under Los Angeles (Instagram). The company got permission in August from the LA suburb of Hawthorne to begin digging beneath the city. Commenting on Twitter and Instagram, Musk said that the tunnel was currently 500 feet (152 metres) long and that the plan was for it to run to LAX airport, parallel to the Interstate 405 highway, with "electric skates" to carry cars and pods to carry people.
The Boring Company was founded as an experimental effort in alternative urban transportation, with Musk envisioning a series of underground roadways that ferry vehicles to and from destinations using electric tracks. It’s effectively a high-speed subway exclusively for cars. Musk has picked LA as the testing ground both because he works in nearby Hawthorne and because the city’s notorious traffic jams gives the Boring Company a clear-sighted target.