'High-speed moving tunnel' running under the ground at 200 km / h of Eolon · mask is finally released and test started for practical use

The tunnel which the excavating company "The Boring Company" which started from the entrepreneur Eulong Mask's tweet was digging in the basement of Los Angeles was completed and opened. In the future it will be a tunnel to eliminate congestion by enabling high-speed movement of more than 200 km / h in the basement of the city, and in the future efforts toward practical use will be advanced.

Elon Musk unveils subterranean tube for avoiding Los Angeles traffic
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Elon Musk Unveils Underground Tunnel to Beat 'Soul-Destroying Traffic' | Time
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On December 18, 2018 local time, Mr. Mask announced that the test tunnel for the underground transportation system that had been built in Los Angeles has opened. The one announced this time is "Testing Tunnel" to the last, and the diameter has secured enough space for one Tesla EV "Model X" to run.

In the field, it was made public that the model X actually runs inside the tunnel. Model X rides on the lane provided in the tunnel, and when the light on the LED and the ceiling changes from red to green, model X starts running automatically.

A report that actually got into Model X has also been released. According to a CNN reporter, model X running at 56 km / h was sometimes shaken, but it seems that it arrived at the destination 1.8 km ahead after about two minutes.

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When the lift got under the hole, I was able to see through the windshield what was waiting for the future. Mr. Mr.'s first tunnel. The length is 1.14 miles (about 1.8 kilometers). It was built for the experiment of underground transport technology.

Model X made a slight advance. Special wheels are equipped to keep the vehicle between the walls of the tunnel and the wall.

The red light at the top of the tunnel suddenly turned green. Model X began to move forward. Sometimes the car body shook. It moved at about 56 kilometers per hour, but the movement in a narrow space felt faster. It was like an amusement park roller coaster. About two minutes later, the car passed through the tunnel and arrived at the parking lot in space X.

The Washington Post also shows the state of the presentation in the movie. In the final plan, the vehicle moves inside the tunnel with the dedicated "truck", but in the test tunnel this time, model X equipped with auxiliary wheels to prevent derailing runs on its own I will.

A ride through Elon Musk's first Boring Company tunnel - YouTube


Mr. Mask states that to avoid the "soul-destroying traffic jam" for the purpose of the high-speed mobile tunnel concept to make people and goods move more efficiently. All of the initiative was posted on December 17, 2016, almost two years ago from the announcement "I'm sick of traffic, I will start digging underground tunnels and I will start digging." It starts from the following tweet.

I am actually going to do this

- Elon Musk (@ elonmusk) 17th December 2016

Two years after the tweet and one day later, Mr. Mask revealed the tunnel where the vehicle can actually run. In this demonstration, it is only 40 miles per hour (about 64 km / h), but the vision that the final target will be 150 miles per hour (about 240 km / h) is shown. Also, in tunnel construction, we revealed that construction cost could be reduced to 1 / 100th by reviewing conventional methods. The construction cost of this tunnel is suppressed to less than 10 million dollars (about 1.2 billion yen) by making it a small tunnel and raising the excavator.

As a final vision, not only are the cars carried on the trucks moving, plans are also shown that people and bicycles move underground using vehicles such as a pair of buses. In the following movie showing the vision, the state that the car and the person are moving without being bothered by traffic jam are drawn in the high speed mobile network stretched in the underground of the city. In addition, Mr. Mask states that the fee charged when the car moves under the underground tunnel is "less than 1 dollar ."

The Boring Company - YouTube


In the future, it seems that experiments and developments for practical use will be advanced using this tunnel, and it seems that the timing of practical use was not disclosed. On the official YouTube channel of The Boring Company, you can see the appearance of the recital.

The Boring Company Event Webcast - YouTube