
Elon Musk's ultra-high-speed hyperloop will cost just $1 to ride
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- May 18, 2018
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Elon Musk is sick of Los Angeles traffic.
The Boring Company, Tesla and SpaceX CEO said he was late to his own tunnel company's information session at a synagogue in Los Angeles on Thursday night because of traffic on a major freeway. He called the congested highway "the seventh or eighth level" of hell.
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"For tunnels you can have hundreds of lanes, there’s no real limit," he said. The tunnel system could also continue deeper and deeper with more demand. Here, Musk made sure to include a dig directed at UberAir, the ambitious electric passenger drone system dreamed up by the ride-hailing app. Uber plans to demo flights in LA by 2020.
"You can’t fly the quietest helicopters through neighborhoods without bothering people," Musk said. He promised that all the digging and boring required to build the hyperloop will go undetected because it's so far down.
"It’s quite difficult to detect when a tunnel is being dug," he said. "We’re invisible."
The LAX hyperloop station will be bigger than the stations all over the city.
Credit: the boring company
Eventually Musk wants the hyperloop to connect cities — San Francisco to LA, New York to Baltimore — and for those trips he's tapping into his SpaceX rocket techniques to build vacuum tunnels that go 300 mph.
For more urban experiences, for example, commutes throughout LA, Musk envisions 150 mph trips. And yes, it'll apparently only cost you that dollar.
Musk spent a hefty portion of the info session explaining the boring process itself using electric motors and battery packs, and what he plans to do with the massive amounts of dirt, including building seismically sound bricks and life-size Lego kits.
For all those patiently waiting for your "not-flamethrowers" from the Boring Company — Musk said the company would start personally delivering the highly flammable devices in two weeks.
With Musk everything's at hyper-speed.
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