Five years ago, Elon Musk’s The Boring Company painted a world in which cars were whisked along on high-speed platforms in traffic-busting underground tunnels. Fast forward to today, and the company’s ambitions haven’t quite lived up to reality. So what has The Boring Company achieved and what does it need to do to fulfill Musk’s aim of eliminating traffic?
00:00 – Elon Musk wanted to end traffic, yet it’s still here.
00:37 – Autonomous traffic-busting tunnels in LA and DC
01:45 – The Las Vegas Convention Center loop
03:37 – How The Boring Company could actually alleviate congestion
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