— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 18, 2017 The Boring Company joins Musk's other business ventures, which include electric car company Tesla, space firm SpaceX, artificial intelligence research non-profit OpenAI and brain-computer interface startup Neuralink. "To solve the problem of soul-destroying traffic, roads must go 3D, which means either flying cars or tunnels," The Boring Company's website states. "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 tunneling speed and dropping costs by a factor of 10 or more—this is the goal of The Boring Company." A concept for a pod designed by The Boring Company. A concept for a pod designed by The Boring Company. The Boring Company Musk already has a history of drastically reducing the cost of travel through major innovations, such as being the first to develop a reusable rocket through his SpaceX company. "It's just as fundamental in rocketry as it is in other forms of transport, such as cars or planes or bicycles," Musk said in a post-launch briefing last year of his company's Falcon 9 rocket. To reduce the cost of tunneling, The Boring Company says it will reduce the diameter of a one-lane tunnel from approximately 28 feet to under 14 feet. To make this safe for vehicles to travel in, cars would be placed on a "stabilized electric skate" and propelled through the tunnels by an electric motor. A video released by the company shows how this futuristic concept might work, with the electric skates travelling at around 125 mph. Elon Musk broke ground for the first tunnel earlier this year. Elon Musk broke ground for the first tunnel earlier this year. The Boring Company The Boring Company's website is now listing job openings for designers, engineers and technicians, as well as a "California Professional Geologist." Beyond transporting cars and other vehicles, tunnels dug by The Boring Company would also make Musk's vision for a Hyperloop transportation system viable. The 760 mph vacuum tube transportation—first envisioned by Musk in 2013—has attracted interest from the likes of Richard Branson and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Reports last year suggested the Russian leader may be planning a 21st Century Silk Road using a Hyperloop network to connect Russia with China. \ \ Newsweek is committed to challenging conventional wisdom and finding connections in the search for common ground. \ \ \ ';uncommonKnowledgeItems[0].insertAdjacentHTML('afterend',uncommonKnowledgeContainerHtml);let uncommonKnowledgeContainerElement=document.getElementsByClassName('uncommon-knowledge');let itemsContainerElement=document.getElementById('uncommon-knowledge-items-container');uncommonKnowledgeContainerElement[0].style.display='block';uncommonKnowledgeItems.forEach((itemUncommon)=>{document.getElementById('uncommon-knowledge-items-container').insertAdjacentHTML('beforeend','