Elon Musk's - Boring Company
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We all might know the company named “Boring”.
Sure enough, we might know what they do, or we don’t??? Let’s dig deep into the topic (no pun intended).
The Boring Company is a tunnel construction company founded by Elon Musk in 2016. Musk took the inspiration of founding this company while he was stuck in the Los Angeles Traffic Jam. He wanted to find a solution to end the traffic jam and limitations with the current 2-D transportation network. The Boring Company is a subsidiary of SpaceX. Elon Musk released the information about his new company in December 2016.
“To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D, which means either flying cars or tunnels. Unlike flying cars, tunnels are weatherproof, out of sight and won't fall on your head. A large network of tunnels many levels deep would fix congestion in any city, no matter how large it grew (just keep adding levels). The key to making this work is increasing tunnelling speed and dropping costs by a factor of 10 or more”,
this is the goal of The Boring Company.
We all might know the company named “Boring”.
Sure enough, we might know what they do, or we don’t??? Let’s dig deep into the topic (no pun intended).
In simpler words, Boring Company is an industry which digs huge bore or holes and digs tunnels below ground.
So what’s so special about Boring Company???
The Boring Company is not known for what they do, what they are going to do. Which means, the ultimate aim for The Boring Company is to reduce traffic and make it a 3d transportation network. It wants to dig a huge bore underground and apparently, these bores will transport vehicles from one destination to another at a swift speed.
According to The Boring Company, they believe that:-
To alleviate traffic, transportation corridors, like the buildings that feed into them, must expand into three dimensions. One option is to “go up” with flying cars. However, flying cars have issues with weather, noise, and generally, increase anxiety levels of those below them. The other option is to “go down” and build tunnels.
What makes it worthy ????
According to The Boring Company, The benefits are:
• There is no practical limit to how many layers of tunnels can be built so any level of traffic can be addressed.
• Tunnels are weatherproof.
• Tunnel construction and operation are silent and invisible to anyone on the surface.
• Tunnels don’t divide communities into lanes and barriers.
Some worry about tunnel not being the safest place during natural disasters like earthquake, but The Boring Company have a good throwback explanation.
They say:-
“Tunnels, when designed properly, are known to be one of the safest places to be during an earthquake. From a structural safety standpoint, the tunnel moves uniformly with the ground, in contrast to surface structures. Additionally, a large amount of earthquake damage is caused by falling debris, which does not apply inside tunnels.”
To support their answer, they have some good examples.
• 1994 Northridge Earthquake: no damage to LA Subway tunnels
• 1989 Loma Prieta (Northern California) Earthquake: no damage to tunnels, which were then used to transport rescue personnel
• 1985 Mexico City Earthquake: no damage to tunnels, which were then used to transport rescue personnel
How it would be beneficial for us???
this is the goal of The Boring Company.
Fast to dig, low-cost tunnels would also make Hyperloop adoption viable and enable rapid transit across densely populated regions,
enabling travel from New York to Washington DC in less than 30 minutes.
A Hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and/or freight transportation, first used to describe an open-source vactrain design released by a joint team from Tesla and SpaceX.
enabling travel from New York to Washington DC in less than 30 minutes.
A Hyperloop is a proposed mode of passenger and/or freight transportation, first used to describe an open-source vactrain design released by a joint team from Tesla and SpaceX.
What we can expect from it??
To make this concept simpler for you, take a look at the below image which shows the main idea behind Elon Musk’s company The Boring Company-
By this image, you might be clear how this project is shaped.
To make this concept more clear, I have a video for you. Watch it and you would be able to know how this tunnelling project is done.
To make this concept more clear, I have a video for you. Watch it and you would be able to know how this tunnelling project is done.
So why it is not done before???
Currently, tunnels are really expensive to dig, with some projects costing as much as $1 billion per mile. In order to make a tunnel network feasible, tunnelling costs must be reduced by a factor of more than 10. And that is one of the barriers that The Boring Company is facing now. They want to construct these tunnels efficiently, fast and cheap in expenditure; so that they can build more tunnel around the world.
What are the barriers they are facing???
Expenditure - As we said, expenditure is one major factor which is holding them back. According to them, construction of these tunnels takes around 1$ billion per mile, according to the Boring Company.
City Officials Problems – This problem is linked to the state and the government.
Due to this huge and never-seen-before project, the Local Government are hesitating about the responsibility of the tunnel’s risk it may suffer in future.
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This resulted in a council meeting in on Monday in LA County's Culver City. During the meeting, Jehn Balajadia, the Boring Company's operations chief, argued for permission to put part of a 6.5 mile "proof of concept" tunnel beneath Culver City.
Councilwoman Meghan Sahli-Wells said, "I don't really trust a private company to watch out for equity because I haven't seen it happen,"
Due to this huge and never-seen-before project, the Local Government are hesitating about the responsibility of the tunnel’s risk it may suffer in future.
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This resulted in a council meeting in on Monday in LA County's Culver City. During the meeting, Jehn Balajadia, the Boring Company's operations chief, argued for permission to put part of a 6.5 mile "proof of concept" tunnel beneath Culver City.
Councilwoman Meghan Sahli-Wells said, "I don't really trust a private company to watch out for equity because I haven't seen it happen,"
The Boring Company has already received approval to dig a 10.3-mile tunnel in Baltimore beneath the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and has discussed constructing a tunnel between downtown Chicago and O'Hare International Airport with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Other popular reactions are –
Characterizing Culver City as “forward-thinking,” Mayor Jeffrey Cooper opined that “it would be foolhardy of us to just say no.”
Council member Meghan Sahli-Wells, however, wasn’t being impressed, said.
“I asked a lot of questions. I didn’t get any answers,” she told Capital & Main. “They sent us the PR people. They didn’t send us the planners. I, so far, have not seen a plan.”
“I asked a lot of questions. I didn’t get any answers,” she told Capital & Main. “They sent us the PR people. They didn’t send us the planners. I, so far, have not seen a plan.”
Uprising Competitions – Another small yet important barriers the company would suffer in the future. Since it is a private company, other private company may also come forward and make their own tunnels across the state, resulting in a huge confusion and chaos. It is a big concern for the local government.
According to the Law and the Government, a public transport and public transit system comes under the facility given by the Government. If the public transit and the way of transportation are controlled by a private company like The Boring Company, it would lead to chaos and competitions among various private companies and this might loosen the control of the government over the public transit system.
How much would be the cost of transportation ???
“Fare prices are not finalized but will be comparable to or lower than current public transportation fares for pedestrians.”
These were the words of The Boring Company.
According to them, they say that the transportation cost will be a fair price and apparently, it would be less than current transportation fares.
According to them, they say that the transportation cost will be a fair price and apparently, it would be less than current transportation fares.
We are really impressed by this company. First of all, they; being a private company; are taking initiative on the public transport system for us which cost around 1$ Billion Dollar to construct. Second of all, the cost of the transportation would be comparable to or lower than current public transportation fares for pedestrians.
This affection towards the technology by The Boring Company is well praised and thanked.
Final Words
The Boring Company is really doing well, and the hard work of the company might be worth in future.
Their awesome thinking and innovation of the project are well respected. By this project, the company is not only taking care of traffic and the efficiency on the roads, but also the future development of humanity and technology.
Their awesome thinking and innovation of the project are well respected. By this project, the company is not only taking care of traffic and the efficiency on the roads, but also the future development of humanity and technology.
Cre-Sent blogs wish them Very best and success on their project.
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