The entrepreneur south african has announced that it the Loop, a metro high speed towards the airport, is close to completing its first phase is important

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The numbers so far have backed his vision, but Elon Musk insists on making their dreams for the future. The focus is put today on their company name more atypical and original, The Boring Company, has announced that the first tunnel tests for its underground transit system of high-speed Loop, is “almost finished”.

it Is a journey of little more than three miles in length between the headquarters of Space X in Los Angeles-another of the companies of Musk – and the main airport of the city, LAX, with the hope of shortening dramatically the time of travel through a few capsules of futuristic look with capacity for between 8 and 16 people.

In reality, of boring, has little the company. The question is to know if it will be feasible, with a handful of engineering problems in tow as the ventilation of the tunnel or emergency exits. Even so, Musk has presented even a video in which the vehicle will gain speed until you reach 150 miles per hour (240 kilometers per hour). In addition to presenting multimedia content, the employer could not wait and has communicated through his Twitter account that the tunnel is finished and its premiere is prepared for December 10.

The vehicle can reach up to 240km/h THE BORING COMPANY

According to the information published on the Internet page of the company, the advantage is not only speed, but the frequency, as they hope to exit a vehicle every 30 seconds and operating for 20 hours a day. Fro in addition to tunnels of concrete with a perimeter much lower than the average in meters traditional to reduce the costs of operation.

according to the CBS, the tunnel works in Los Angeles, one of the cities with major traffic problems of the united States, take up more than a year, with the approval of the mayor, Eric Garcetti, and with the hope of oxygenate the increasingly congested highway network.

Where also seems to have convinced the project of Musk is in another city of liberal, Chicago. The Boring Company it will try to connect the center of the city with the airport. The promise is to travel nearly 29 kilometres of path in 12 minutes, four times less than the 40-45 minutes that now employ the trains of the metro Blue line. Sounds idyllic.

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